by Nancy Battersby
When using your large hoop, 6×10 or larger, bring the design down to the bottom of the hoop before stitching out, and you will have enough stabilizer left over to use for a smaller hoop.
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by Nancy Battersby
When using your large hoop, 6×10 or larger, bring the design down to the bottom of the hoop before stitching out, and you will have enough stabilizer left over to use for a smaller hoop.
why didn’t I think of this?
I’ve used this method too. I found another way also. I hoop with a little extra and scoot the finished design out the bottom and rehoop. This way I can get 2 or 3 smaller designs with less wasted space between. This works well for things like tags, sucker holders and ponytail holders.
If my stabilizer is on a roll I hoop it with it on the roll. When I’m done, I can trim near the design & not lose those inches that would have been cut off to hoop.
When I use a large hoop, I cut the stabilizer about 1 1/2 times the size I need – then if you move the design to the bottom of the hoop, you have enough left to rehoop a second time and don’t waste quite as much stabilizer.
I have tried this and it didnt work as I took a B hoop design that would have fitted in an A hoop and changed it. The results were that they affected the no of colours and started combining them. It wasnt a good result.
You can also save smaller pieces, combine them in the hoop and fix stick to tack them to the fabric. I found this uses alot of the smaller pieces, but i will also try your suggestion.
I have done what Connie mentioned. When I am doing a lot of similar designs for quilts I cut what I need for the first block and tfor the rest, baste stabilizer for the rest of the blocks where it was used for the previous block – saves a lot of stabilizer. I also have a smaller hoop to use the scraps from the large hoops.