Me thinks you may be hooping to tight. This will cause the fabric to try to curl. Just get enough tension to keep it in the hoop. Herb Royal Embroidery ----- Original Message ----- From: <suried@xxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: [amayausers] Hooping Beanies > Hello everyone, > I have 7 beanies to embroider text onto for tomorrow. > What is the best way to hoop a beanies so that the > text lines up with the bottom of the hat? The text is > 3.4 inches long so I am having difficulty getting the > entire text to be spaced evenly from the bottom of the > beanie. Every time I tried a partial hooping I could > see the bottom of the hat wasn't even. So then I used > tape to pull the areas where it was raised down a > little and taped to the cutaway. My first two letters > were closer to the bottom edge and the rest were > pretty much evenly spaced with the bottom. Should I > try sticky and a fast frame? I'm thinking I need to > stick with cutaway though. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Susan > > > > > > Susan Riedlinger > Embroidery Station > Columbus, OH > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >