Remember that the numbers of hoopings in a multi-hooped design do not necessarily correspond to the number of output files. It all depends on the layering of objects within the design. In order to preserve the digitized stitching sequence, the same hooping may need to be visited more than once. Hoopings are stitched consecutively to form the whole design. The following provides a guide for stitching out multi-hoop files on the machine.
1Open your large multi-hooped design.
2Print out the hooping sequence. Large layouts can be printed on small format printers and then pieced together. This establishes all hoops in the correct spatial relationship.
3Fix the printout to the garment. Remove the unnecessary pieces of the layout to isolate individual hoopings.
4Hoop the fabric (or garment) and stitch out the first hooping. Registration marks are stitched last. Use the hoop position marker to locate and rotate the garment using the physical hoop template.
5Un-hoop the fabric.
6Hoop a piece of sticky backed stabilizer and remove the protective paper.
7Stitch the registration marks at the start of the next hooping onto the stabilizer.
8Align the last-stitched registration marks with the marks on the stabilizer, and smooth the fabric onto the sticky back. To assist, stick sewing pins through the center of the registration marks.
9Stitch the next hooping.
10Repeat until the design is complete.
3It is important that your fabric does not stretch or warp when stitching. To achieve this, you must take extra hooping precautions.
3If using knit, stabilize the back first so it does not stretch.
3Use a sticky-back stabilizer or a good spray adhesive. Most recommend using a sticky-back tear-away stabilizer, heavy enough so that the registration marks do not tear the stabilizer.
3Use pins through the registration marks of one hooping to align the corresponding marks of the next hooping.