how hoop heavy material

**gramy** · July 31st, 2009

I am fairly new at this and I have something I want to embroidery but it is too heavy to hoop. Is there a way to still embroidery it on my machine?

**la_cole** · July 31st, 2009

What type of fabric are you attempting to embroider? Have you used sticky backing or a spray adhesive?

**windstar** · July 31st, 2009

If you don't want to use sticky stabilizer or spray adhesives you can hoop your stabilizer then pin your heavy item to the stabilizer all around the inside of your hoop and if you need a stabilizer on top you just lay it on top of your item and embroider away.

**gramy** · August 1st, 2009

I thank both of you. I did not realise I could just pin the fabric to a hoop. The fabric is sort of sponge like. It is a bag my adult daughter wants her initial put on. I will attempt this pinning idea today!. Thanks again

**windstar** · August 1st, 2009

I pin anything I can't hoop. I've never bought the sticky stuff and I hear too many horror stories about the spray adhesives getting on the hoops and trying to clean them, so why give myself another job to do, so I will pineverything and it makes it easier to also do larger/split designs this way too.

**wissewer** · August 2nd, 2009

Sometime ago, another forum member suggested double faced tape to hold the material onto the stabilizer while stitching. The tape is placed along the outside edges of the fabric, within the hoop, and works sort of like a secondary hoop.

**jstitch** · August 3rd, 2009

Embroidery.com has a retail store in my town. When I had problems with my towel and went for a demo of the stitch eraser, they told me they also use the double-faced tape option. For whatever that's worth.

**clkeck** · August 3rd, 2009

Also be sure to support the material that isn't being embroidered. The weight of something can pull a design off.
HTH, Connie

**dhale** · September 7th, 2009

When I embroider thick things (towels etc) I don't hoop it. I have a fix button on my machine which stitches a square around where the design is and then embroiders inside the square. this holds the material on the hoop and works very well.

ldingeldine · December 4th, 2009

Thank you all for your suggestions, I did some towles but I had to take my hoop screws out to the max. And I still popped the hoop a few times. Thank to all of your suggestion I can now do towles and not be frustrated.