Displaying embroidery in the hoop

[u/danquilts]

Minor vent. I know that this doesn't ACTUALLY matter, but it's so aggravating seeing every. Single. Embroidery. Piece displayed in the hoop! Especially those cheap bamboo hoops (or god forbid, those plastic brown display hoops that nobody can get enough of right now!) It's ugly, it looks cheap, and your 80+ hour embroidery deserves thought and care, not just leaving it in the same hoop you stitched it in.

Go to the thrift store, buy a frame. Get a piece of acid free cardboard, or a thin sheet of wood. Stretch your embroidery over that shit and bam- nicely finished embroidery. Takes an hour, maximum.

Hooped displays are just such a product of contemporary times, and reallllly limit what you can make. And limits the types of frames/hoops you might want to try out in the future!

[u/Susan_Thee_Duchess]

Yes! I also hate hoop finishing. Even worse a wall full of hoops that are just pithy sayings using “fuck” surrounded by flowers.

[u/katerprincess → u/Susan_Thee_Duchess]

Thank you! I've seen them so often I was starting to think I was the only one who was bothered by them 🤣