{"id":4995,"date":"2012-07-05T07:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2012-07-05T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T21:04:58","slug":"hoop-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/07\/05\/hoop-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoop love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I received a spate of emails and messages from people telling me how much they loved the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/embroidery-hoop.html\" title=\"Embroidery stand and hoop\" target=\"_blank\">hoop and stand<\/a> that they had bought from me. Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with the embroidery stand and hoop.  So glad you recommended it&#8230; it makes the &#8220;job&#8221; so much more comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/embroidery-hoop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/embroidery-hoop.jpg\" alt=\"embroidery hoop with stand\" title=\"embroidery-hoop\" width=\"400\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/embroidery-hoop.jpg 400w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/embroidery-hoop-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/embroidery-hoop-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve probably heard me wax lyrical before about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/embroidery-hoop.html\" title=\"Embroidery stand and hoop\" target=\"_blank\">hoop and stand<\/a> sets that I sell. I sell them simply because I love them and I think that they are a GREAT product. You can see that I was using mine in yesterday&#8217;s picture of the <a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/07\/04\/schwalm-progress\/\" title=\"Schwalm progress\" target=\"_blank\">Schwalm embroidery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I love them so much? Let me count the ways&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have to hold the hoop yourself, as the stand does it for you. This leaves both hands free to hold your needle and manipulate your thread. Occasionally I come across a customer who has movement issues with one hand. These hoops with stand are the perfect product for that, as the stand acts as an extra hand for you.<\/li>\n<li>You can flip the hoop up to easily get to the back of the work so that you can anchor threads or check for unwanted thread tangles. (see picture F)<\/li>\n<li>You can turn the hoop so that you can access a different part of the stitching. (pictures B and C)<\/li>\n<li>You can move the whole hoop up and down so that it is right up close, or a little lower down. (picture D)<\/li>\n<li>The hoop is strong, sturdy and deep. When you&#8217;re working with thin and flimsy fabrics, this isn&#8217;t quite so important. But when you&#8217;re working with a heavier embroidery such as Mountmellick embroidery, you want to know that the hoop won&#8217;t warp or even pop off. At the recent craft show, one customer said that she loved using hers with a big woollen blanket that she recently made. It took the weight of the heavy blanketing off her, and she said she couldn&#8217;t have managed without the hoop and stand.<\/li>\n<li>The wood is lovely to look at and very smooth to feel. The look and feel says quality, and it is quality.<\/li>\n<li>The kidney shaped base goes under your legs either from the side, or between the legs &#8211; whichever feels more comfortable. I use mine between my legs. This gives the hoop a great stable base. You can use it on pretty much any sort of surface. I regularly use mine while sitting on the pudgy lounge, but it also works on harder surfaced chairs, such as wooden benches (at the swimming pool!) and kitchen r dining room chairs.<\/li>\n<li>The whole thing is small enough to be portable. I regularly pack mine up into a tote bag or backpack and take it with me to my daily activities, so that I can happily work on my embroidery while I am waiting for children, sitting on a train etc.<\/li>\n<li>One small detail that I particularly love is the tightening screw, which has a slot for a screw driver. This means that you can REALLY tighten the hoop &#8211; without it, fingers just can&#8217;t get a hoop tight enough. I don&#8217;t actually use a screw driver for tightening mine; I have a small metal ruler that I slot into the grove to tighten with. It means I don&#8217;t have to carry a screw driver with me (I sometimes wonder if that could look too much like a weapon when I am out and about!) but instead I always have a ruler with me which is useful for measuring! (see picture E)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can probably think of other reasons you love your hoop and stand for &#8211; so please share them with us. And if you haven&#8217;t tried one of these fantastic products yet, head on over to the Vetty Creations website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/embroidery-hoop.html\" title=\"Embroidery stand and hoop\" target=\"_blank\">embroidery hoop and stand<\/a> page, and ensure one is on its way to you!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never used a hoop before, Mary Corbet has some excellent information about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlenthread.com\/2012\/06\/how-to-set-up-an-embroidery-hoop.html\" title=\"How to set up an embroidery hoop\" target=\"_blank\">setting up a hoop<\/a>, over on her wonderful blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I received a spate of emails and messages from people telling me how much they loved the hoop and stand that they had bought from me. Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with the embroidery stand and hoop. So glad you recommended it&#8230; it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-favourite-needlework-items","category-hints-and-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}