Needle and thread website has an excellent tutorial to stretch fabric on the slate frame Scroll Bars / Frames The 5 yard sarees are worked on this frame. This frame is extensively used for tapestry work, gold work ( Ari work) bead work, zardosi work. The fabric is attached to the frames with threaded cords. This frame consists of a stand and adjustable wooden dowels with grooves in them ( they come in sizes of maximum 4 feet width &-6 feet length). And you can adjust the tension without setting up the frame from the scratch – you just need to tighten the cords. Another great thing about this frame is that a very even stretching achieved throughout the fabric. Large shawls and fabrics can be easily stretched to the frame and multiple people can embroider at the same time sitting around it. The best frame to stretch fabric for very large embroidery projects.
#Embroidery frame free#
It keeps your both hands free for doing hand embroidery. This is a metal stand – you also get a wooden embroidery hoop with this. To use this you squeeze a pair of handles on the inner ring to remove it, place the fabric over the outer ring, place the inner ring into place and release the handles. This hoop has two handles to operate which is very easy but do not provide the great tension the one with the screw does. The normal wooden embroidery hoop with screw clamping the fabric in place. Make sure that the inner hoop is slightly outside with a slight projection ( some 1/8 inch) Ensure that the fabric lies smoothly inside without overstretching. Step 3 Keep the inner hoop on top of the fabric and push the inner hoop inside. Step 2 Place the fabric on top of this ring Step 1 Keep the outer ring of the hoop on a straight smooth surface with the screw loosened
#Embroidery frame how to#
How to put the fabric on the hoop for machine embroidery It is necessary that you stretch the fabric when doing machine embroidery. Tip: When embroidering on delicate fabric some people cover the frames with strips of fabric ( wind around the frame all around) so that the tight frames would not mark the fabric. Do not mark fabric as much as the wooden ones I think. They are smooth and easy to handle and washable.
You also get hands free embroidery hoops with stands, which by the looks of it is something I really really need.
Remember that you need at least some free space all around the design for smooth embroidering so getting them in different sizes makes sense, not an indulgence. The stabbing required sometimes tests my patience.īut no one can deny that embroidery done on hoops look way better than the one done holding the fabric in the hand especially if you are doing counted thread embroidery like cross stitch or ones which require a flat surface like satin stitch and long and short stitchįor small embroidery designs, a 4″ hoop is enough but if you have it in different sizes, more convenient for you. So I find it a bit restrictive to use hoops. I like to feel the fabric between my hands, touching the thread this is one of my greatest enjoyment when sewing. Should I use Hoops when embroidering by hand ? They are the most commonly used tool for stretching fabric when embroidering, be it by hand or by machine. Hoops consists of two rings and the fabric is stretched in between these rings and tightened with a screw.