I saw a cheat for when you wanted to repetitively sew things but not continue to reset your hoop.... like you put stabilizer in it and cut out a hole for where your stitching area was and then just pinned your item in place - but 1) I don't remember how this worked and 2) in theory it seems like stabilizer cut out and pinning it would get weak really fast... Does anyone know what I'm talking about? This would have been helpful last night since my fingers are now bloody and bruised from forcing my quilt to go down in my hoop! Oh - it went - but not nicely!!

Brillant question. I am all eyes on the screen for indepth answers to this one.

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I am doing alot of the same design FSL so will try to use the method!

I have done this. It works really well. Use it when you want to save stabilizer and your design is just a litle too big for the smaller sized hoop, but way too small for the larger hoop.

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by wishfulthinking 09 Mar 2011

Come on then 02kar, enlighten us. Great detail would be good pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee

I don't know your brand of machine. However, Viking has a "all-quilters" hoop with 2 different inter hoops. It is a little easier to hoop quilts. It is only 150x150 so I have to do much hooping! I'm afraid to use the others for fear that I'll break them.

I saw something like what you are asking posted on PNW group, they talked about saving stabilizer by hooping a piece of heavyduty cutting a hole were the design would go then basting another piece of what you need, that way you just undid the basting and you could use it again with out having to rehoop an entire new piece of stabilizer. I tried it for an FSL design it did work good, I hooped a heavy cutaway then basted my solvy did save on the solvy.