 Re: Embroider on Pockets?
Necessity being the mother of invention, I came up with a little trick for getting those bag pockets to stay in the hoop.
Get some of that foamy Rubbermaid shelf liner that looks webbed. Cut a piece a little larger than your hoop, then cut the center out, so that you're left with a gasket of sorts.
Put that in the hoop underneath the bag pocket, like you would do with backing. Don't hoop your backing...just hoop the gasket and the bag. You can slip your backing underneath the whole chacha once you have it on the machine.
With that gasket in, your bag pocket won't slip around, so the hoop will stay closed.
I used this method for some large cooler bags I was doing, and it worked great. Of course, because the bag was so large and heavy, I had to hold it up while it sewed, but that's true of most large bags.
Hope this helps. |