The Hoop Skirt is designed to hold back excess fabric when you are embroidering on a small t-shirt or baby onesie using a single needle embroidery machine. It is designed to fit with many differnent embroidery hoop. Before beginning – make sure that you have the correct Hoop Skirt for your the embroidery hoop you are using.
Start with a baby onesie or small t-shirt
Turn shirt or onesie inside out
Turn onesie inside out. Fuse a piece of fusible poly mesh (larger than the size of the design you are stitching out) to inside of the onesie. Then locate the intended center of the design.
Mark the center
Using a disappearing ink fabric pen, mark the desired center of the design and extend the lines vertically and horizontally.
Prepare your embroidery hoop
Hoop a piece of sticky back stabilizer. Score around the inside edge of the hoop with a pin and peel away the top paper. Draw horizontal and vertical lines through the center of the hoop on the exposed sticky stabilizer.
Fold the onesie
Fold the onesie along the vertical center line and stick it onto the exposed sticky of the stabilizer aligning the vertical line on the onesie with the vertical line on the stabilizer.
Smooth out the onesie
Put your hand inside the onesie and smooth it out so that the front of the onesie is completely stuck to the stabilizer.
Insert the hoop skirt
Insert the hoop skirt through the bottom opening of the onesie
Snap it in!
Press the hoop skirt into the hoop – snapping it into place.
Push away the fabric
Push the excess fabric out of the way and secure behind the lips of the hoop skirt. Tighten the embroidery hoop to hold the hoop skirt in place.
Attach the hoop to the embroidery machine
Slide the embroidery hoop underneath the presser foot – then snap the hoop in place.
Start stitching!
Begin stitching out your embroidery design
Disassemble!
Pop out the hoop skirt and tear the onesie away from the hooped tearaway. You are done!
Success!
Please note: using The Hoop Skirt diminishes the size of your maximum embroidery area by 1/2” in the horizontal direction.