Embroidery 101: Hoop Stands and How to Use Them

[Music] hi everybody I'm Natalie with Missouri Star Quilt Company and today we're going to talk about hoop stands so hoop stands are great for keeping your work in place and giving you freedom to use both of your hands while having your your embroidery project or needle Punch or whatever it is that you're working on um in a steady hoop and they come in a variety of different styles and sizes we have hoops that can sit on the floor or up on a table um this one you're just going to put under your leg so you can sit on the couch and do your work or where you know wherever in a big comfy chair uh this is a great tabletop stand this one clamps right to your table or a TV tray something like that um this one is a combination it could either be a table stand or you could put your leg over it and sit um with this one on on the couch or wherever and this one is great because it has two different sizes so you could have different sizes on both sides or you could just put a piece of fabric or something on the bottom or whichever side you want to use and um and it also has like a no slip feature so your fabric stays nice and tight um they come with different levels of assembly most of them are pretty quick and easy to put together right off the right out of the box some of them have a few screws you have to put in the um the little green bean one is handmade and um and has a video that Missy from little green bean made and we will link to that in our show notes so that is a that is a fun one it's really cute and one that I like to use a lot um and then this one I'm going to go ahead and assemble uh I'll just pull one out real quick and show you how it goes together it basically you have these two hoops and then you pop these um legs in place and it's all put together so let's go with that so I'll slide these to the side comes with these two little Hoops which you clip off the outside and then we've got three little legs and it looks like that's it so if I'm looking correctly it looks like we have the short ones that go into the the tall end of the hoop not 100% sure I'm figuring it out as I go along [Music] [Music] strong person to help push that on it's not it's not super difficult but there you have it we are assembled and ready to go so this one is cool because it comes with two different sizes of Hoops and um and some of them like this one comes completely out the rest of them are permanent Hoops that are attached to the hoop stand but they're a really great tool to have in your toolkit and I hope this helps and uh that you have a great time embroidering this week on whatever projects you're working on have a great day thank you so much for joining me for this video today I hope that you enjoyed it and that it inspired your creativity and guys we're at almost a million Quilters strong in our community so if you know of anybody that you think might like to join us and learn quilting with us bring them on in put your arm around them and tell them to subscribe to our channel so that we can all learn and and grow together [Music]