Hooping the fabric can be one of those things you just have to practice.
I'm going to show you some tricks that I use when hooping my fabric up.
First off, if you are actually working with a piece that you need to get perfectly centered
in your hoop or at least have a center point for where the design is going to be, start
off by taking a ruler and putting a perfectly perpendicular line.
If this was my center right here then I can go ahead and go across like that.
Now this is a purple vanishing marker so if I don't do my embroidery right away these
lines are going to disappear, but what I can do is go ahead and use this and get it lined
up with the mark of my hoop so I know I actually get it in there straight.
Now remember this machine, the Husqvarna Viking Designer Ruby Royale has the ability to hoop
crooked.
So even if I'm not perfectly straight I can just go ahead and hoop it and not worry about
it.
Yay, but sometimes it's nice to get it in there at least halfway where you want it to
be.
Now, before I actually hoop I already have cut out two pieces of stabilizer.
Yes, I do use two layers of stabilizer for every project I do, if not more.
I also use some spray adhesive.
I'm going to spray the layers of stabilizer together and then go ahead and use ... This
is actually Mettler's Web Bond.
I like it because as I spray I don't get over spray on my machine or my cabinet if I'm really
careful.
Some of those other sprays get a little crazy and you definitely have to clean things a
little later, but I do like ... It has almost like a ... It reminds me of Spiderman.
You know how he has this little web that he shoots out of his fingers, and it's more direct,
and that is what this is all about.
By spraying the layers together, did you notice I sprayed the stabilizer?
That way when I go my spray adhesive doesn't come off over on my fabric.
I'm going to give this a little bit more spray.
There we go.
Then it's like a big Post-it-Note.
You can definitely just get it to attach and adhere right where you want it to be, and
then notice as I pull across the fabric, even on my bias it doesn't stretch.
It makes it a lot easier to actually hoop up.
Now notice when you look at your hoop you have a line here and here, little marks.
Those are going to be your center mark, and then here and here.
You also want to be able to read the 360 by 200.
Always have that closest to your body.
If I was going to hoop, so that's fairly equal here, we can go ahead and do that.
Notice I have the inner hoop on top of my fabric, and then what I'm going to do is just
go ahead and bring my outer hoop ... This is why you need lots of room to hoop, and
you also want to hoop standing up.
It's a lot easier.
Don't do it on your lap.
You need a flat surface.
What I'm going to do is just lift this up, and before I do anything I'm going to make
sure that this hoop is, the release has been opened and the screw has been loosened.
Then that way when I go to put this in it almost just eases right into the outer hoop.
Now what I'm going to do is get that top part pushed in first.
I'm going to come up here, slide that to the top.
Coming off the edge of my table I'm going to just pull open, and I can feel because
of how easy it is, it just slipped right in there.
I hardly have any work to do, and the fabric stayed fairly straight as I had it held.
Then next, go ahead and close the quick release button.
If it doesn't want to close go ahead and loosen your screw a little bit more, then close it.
You can always come back and tighten it at the end, but don't force this closed.
What's nice is the reason for that quick release is that when you're done, let's say you were
going to hoop three more pieces that are cotton and two layers of stabilizer.
All I have to do is release, put my new fabric in, and close it up.
That was I don't have to be loosening and tightening the screw as much, and it really
is a huge time saver.
Next thing I want to do is just show you, I actually take the hoop and just with my
thumbs on the inside, inner hoop, just push the hoop just a little past flush.
Not a lot, just a little bit.
It helps make sure your hoop is all the way into each other.
It gives that last little bit of tighten all the way around.
Here we go, there.
Now one thing that you will find that if you are working with some fabrics with the larger
hoops, right here the hoop is tight in the corners, but sometimes a little loose along
the middles.
That's what these clips are for.
I don't always use them, but boy when there's a time I need to use them I will pull them
out so I can squeeze the hoops right here.
What you want to do is you line up ... These are the top part that you actually end up
pinching.
This goes the top part.
Then there's a small part the eases in between these little notches, so when you look at
it there's a little tongue that sits inside these little openings.
Then they just squeeze the hoops together.
Isn't that fantastic?
You can put those all around the hoop.
You have plenty.
I will warn you if one of these gets on the floor and you step on it, it kind of hurts.
Almost worse than Legos, so keep those contained because they do sometimes want to pop off.
If you bump them they spring up so just keep that in mind.
Now, when at all possible always use the hoop size the machine recommends for you to stitch
in.
That means that if it's a smaller design use a smaller hoop, and your machine will actually
tell you which hoop to use.
We also will be able to tell the machine we are using, so even if you are doing a small
design and you are using the big hoop, you can override it and tell the machine you know
what you're doing.
I always if I can, work with a smaller hoop and once again, then you don't need as much
stabilizer, you're not wasting as much fabric, and you can get things in and out of a smaller
hoop a little faster, and your machine will actually embroider a little faster when you
are working with smaller hoop sizes.
It slows down just a little bit when you're working with the larger ones.
That is how it's going to look like if you're hooping with the smaller ones, and we'll show
you some efficient ways throughout these videos of hooping, so you don't always waste as much
fabric as you see around here.
Let's get started.
Let's get the embroidery module on the machine and start to look around at what we are capable
of doing with this fantastic machine.