![]() It’s designed to pull the curve together with equal force in both directions, allowing the ring of the hoop to actually hold well at the corner, where normally you’d expect it to be weak. One thing that makes this hoop very special is the hardware. So there are technical reasons for a square-round hoop, but really, they boil down to this: designs fit nicely in this hoop, and the hoop works! We could use stretcher bar frames that are more customizable, size-wise, but sometimes, a hoop is more comfortable to use and much more transportable.Īnd sometimes, stretcher bars simply won’t work for the type of embroidery we’re doing. Normally, we have to choose a round hoop that’s larger in all directions than it needs to be, because – after all – it’s round.Īnd we are obliged to use enough fabric to accommodate the design in the hoop as if the design were squally wide and tall, so that the round hoop fits the design. ![]() Many embroidery designs – whether horizontally or vertically situated – fit really well into this hoop space, because so many designs are either wider than they are tall, or taller than they are wide. It has to do with the fit of the hoop on the design, more than anything else. Well, it’s not necessarily better – it’s just different in a very good way. Why is this any better than a round hoop? You may rightly wonder “What is the Point?” The corners are more gently sloped than those on square hoops, allowing for a really nice fit between the two rings that really works when holding onto the fabric. Notice that the curves at the “corners” of this hoop are gentle, drawing the 7″ wide and 5.5″ tall hoop (which can be used horizontally or vertically) into a nice rectangular shape with rounded corners. I was going to share it here, but it took up Way Too Much Space for one article!) (I’ll share a tutorial for binding the inner ring on this hoop later this week. And unlike square hoops, they are not-square.Ībove, you can see my square-round hoop, which has already been bound with twill tape on the inner ring. They are called square-round hoops because, unlike round hoops, they are not-round. I’ve decided this is the one instance in metaphysical reality where a thing can be square and round at the same time – while being neither square nor round, actually. That is, there are these rather curiously-named “square round” embroidery hoops. I’ve tried ’em all – including the high quality ones – and they always disappoint.)Īnd now, there are sqround hoops. (No, there really are square hoops – but let’s not discuss them. Well, that’s how I felt when I started using a rather unique embroidery hoop that I’ve subsequently fallen in love with.Īnd there are Square hoops. You half-way sigh and wonder why this wasn’t in your life just a little bit sooner.
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