Husquarna Magestic Hoop

Size matters, even when it comes to embroidery hoops.  The biggest hoop out there is the Husquarna majestic hoop, which is currently only usable on the Viking Husquarna Epic sewing and embroidery machine.  I've got one of those, plus a need for size on one of my upcoming projects, so I decided to give the ginormous hoop a try.

The hoop comes with one test design for embroidery and another for quilting.  I decided to sew out the one for embroidery.

Here's the hoop itself, with some muslin.  There's a mount on both sides, under the fabric.  This hoop stitches out half the design, then you flip the hoop and it stitches out the other half.

Here's half the design.  Going to the other half, alignment is critical and some adjustments were necessary.  In fact, the amount of the adjustment required was large enough, it required rehooping to make it work.  That's a tough thing to get right, even with alignment stitches.

The final result isn't perfect, but it's off my only about a millimeter.  Most people will never notice.

There's no sense it letting this pretty embroidery go to waste.  It ends up like a lot of my experiments: as a throw pillow.  Just for scale, this is an 18"x18" pillow.

It's always fun trying out new toys and stretching my capabilities.

Come back next week for more fun with a sewing machine!