I love my embroidery machine,it's a real little work horse but I would really like a bigger surface than my 5x7hoop. For those of you with embroidery machines can you tell me what size hoop capacity your machines have and what make they are. Thanks!
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I love my embroidery machine,it's a real little work horse but I would really like a bigger surface than my 5x7hoop. For those of you with embroidery machines can you tell me what size hoop capacity your machines have and what make they are. Thanks!
Mine is a Brother Quattro 3 Triology and the largest hoop is 8x12 When I went looking for a machine I wanted one that would embroidery an 8 inch wide design. The design below is an 8x8 and I made a table mat with it.
Babylock Ellegante (the original) 8x12'' The harp is 9'' if you want to quilt with it.
I have a Pfaff Creative Sensation. The largest hoop I have is 8x14. They do make a 13x14 hoop (you stitch half the design then turn the hoop around and stitch the other half) I just haven't had a need for it. The throat size is 10 inches. The new Babylock Destiny has the biggest hoop size on the market I believe which is 9-1/2 x 14.
Brother now has the Dream Machine Innov-is 8500D that also has the 9.5x14 . Its probably the twin to the Destiny. Not sure about the price...but I'm sure its way up there...
Brother Innovis 5000 Laura Ashley Isadore - 7x12 combo - Great precision for quilting, with the auto-feet goes through thick layers like butter for bag making like the Swoon bags, embroiders lovely. When I win the lotto, a 10 needle will be my baby. lol
I have a Pfaff Creative Sensation Pro and a Pfaff Creative Performance that came with an 8x14 hoop. As Ann has already mentioned, there is a bigger one that stitches in halves. Then there is also an endless hoop that makes continuous embroidery re-hooping easy. (I do not have that one).
The Creative Performance's replacement is the Creative 4.5. You have 2 choices of embroidery unit size. The smaller unit has an 8x10 biggest size hoop.
I have both size embroidery units, and I do not use the large 8x14 hoop frequently.
All Pfaff Creative machines have a 10" throat size.
Y'all are making me drool. My Brother has a 5x7 embroidery design limit which is usually plenty but the bigger ones sound soooo very nice.
I recently quilted a sandwich with redwork snowflake designs and it turned out cute but took quite a while.:icon_razz:
Viking Topaz - biggest hoop is 7 X 14
I currently have a babylock Spirit Embroidery only but plan on trading that in on one that also sews. Mine comes with a 5x7 and 7 x 12 hoopwith additional ones you can purchase. When I had an embroidery/sewing machine with just the smaller hoop there was a way to embroider in quadrants so you could make something 4 times bigger. I never tried it though.
My Victor/Victoria (the name varies depending upon which suit he/she wears) is a Husqvarna Viking Designer Diamond. I have five hoops for it - a 4x4, a 5x7, an 8x8, a 10.2x7.9, a 14.2x7.9, and a 14.2x13.8 (inches all). I also have another larger hoop that cost an arm and a leg that I've never used . . .
The 5 x 7 is the hoop I use the most.
There aren't many designs large enough to pay
for the expense of a larger hoop.
Ahh, I use a whole lot of designs that won't fit in a 5x7 . . .Quote:
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There are countless designs bigger than 5x7.
Thousands of them!
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I do too...I have a lot of them. Most of my Blackwork designs wouldn't fit in a 5x7 hoop.
Pfaff creative 2.0. The largest hoop size is 10.2x7.9 or 260x200mm. It seems to be large enough for what I do. I am able to resize most larger designs (within reason) to fit it using embrilliance.
My Janome 12000 came with four hoops: 5.5" square; 9.1" square; 9.1 x 11.8 and 3.9 x 1.6 for collars and cuffs and other small spaces. I have 11" to the right of the needle. My Janome 9500's largest hoop was 5 x 7. I definitely felt very restricted as far as designs I could stitch but it sure does beautiful embroidery.
Bubby and Sandy, I'd love to play on your machines with hoops that size! Oh, how I wish!
My local quilt shop has been kind enough to split some patterns for me when they are too large stitch count. I don't know how to do that myself though.
I'd like to add on to this question if I may.....for all of you with the Embroidery machines....do you use them for quilting patterns too to quilt your own quilts?
I have not done any quilting with mine. I have seen some pictures posted of those who do and it looks very nice. I don't like sandwiching my quilts so I send them all out to be done. Maybe I'd try it on a small table runner/topper though.Quote:
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