Hoop art is a term that refers to the fact of making a DIY creation presented on an embroidery hoop. This is a very simple frame to make, which most often allows you to highlight a pretty embroidery. Indeed, the embroidery hoop is a necessary support to stretch the fabric on the canvas. Just leave your creation on it, then a few finishing touches to get a trendy decoration to hang on the wall like a painting. In this article, we explain everything about this new trend of modern embroidery.
Why did hoop art become trendy?
In recent years, the practice of embroidery has come back in force. This is explained by a desire to take time for oneself and to create. DIY is a factor of well-being because it allows you to concentrate on a pleasant and repetitive task and to forget your negative thoughts. It is also proven that creating causes the production of hormones linked to happiness. If cross stitch still has followers, embroidery has been able to renew itself and create surprise thanks to modern models and more fanciful stitches. From now on, embroidery is meant to be decorative and artistic. So there is something for everyone.
This modern embroidery makes the circle a real frame, a bit like a painting which, to be highlighted, will be hung on the wall. You guessed it, the term “hoop” means “circle”. Thus, the embroidery hoop welcomes an achievement that is intended to be artistic. Although this can be of a different nature than an embroidered creation and be used to frame another project (punch needle, photographs, paper creation), it is all the same the embroidery presented in a circle that arouses the more membership!
Indeed, working a hoop art :
- Allows you to make a decorative object yourself;
- Decorate your home with an inexpensive form of framing;
- Brings softness to any type of interior decoration with a rounded shape;
- Hangs on the wall in a snap;
- Gives a trendy side to the decor;
- Allows you to offer an embroidery that will find its place easily in your loved ones.
Is it difficult to make a framed embroidery?
Doing a hoop embroidery doesn't have to be difficult. It is true that this art of yarn may seem technical. If a hoop art is inexpensive in itself because the embroidery hoop has an affordable cost, unlike a real frame, equipping yourself with embroidery can be a brake. Thus, you have to choose the right needle, the right fabric, the right size threads and know how to match the colors. In addition, finding an understandable embroidery tutorial for a beginner is sometimes complicated. To start the hoop art well , turn to a complete kit!
At French Kits, we have made decorative embroidery one of our flagship creative hobbies! Thus, all our kits are designed so that the embroidery is framed and becomes a home decoration. This is why they include all the equipment you need:
- The embroidery hoop 10 cm in diameter: a small diameter which is well suited for a realization of reasonable size when starting out;
- A canvas whose size is adapted to the drum and which is printed: we forget the delicate stage of transferring the pattern to the fabric;
- An embroidery needle;
- Coordinated color threads.
To make your embroidery and present it on the hoop, the kit includes several tutorials:
- An illustrated booklet takes up the stages of creation;
- A video shows you how to insert the canvas into the drum;
- Another tutorial describes how to finish the embroidery upside down;
- The points are detailed in video so that you reproduce the right gestures.
This is how technical obstacles disappear and you have everything at hand to start your first hoop art.
What mistakes to avoid when starting hoop embroidery?
There are a few mistakes to avoid when getting started with hoop embroidery. Here is the list of the most common:
- Not having the right support: the canvas may be too flexible and its presentation on a drum unattractive. The canvas made in France for our French kits stretches well and does not wrinkle!
- Choose an embroidery hoop that is too large for the size of the embroidery, which will highlight it less; a small format 10 x 10 cm as in our kits is well suited to get started;
- Tighten the screw very hard when mounting the canvas and damage the hoop upright;
- Use an unsuitable needle which may puncture the fabric badly or damage it;
- Not having the right wire;
- Choose a project that is too long to do and that requires a lot of time or a tutorial that is too complex when you start.
It's so you don't go through the same mistakes that we've designed beginner hoop art kits that combine a trendy pattern with simple tutorials. Each embroidery can be done between 1 to 3 hours. This allows you to combine a quick creation to do with projects that are suitable for novices.
Hoop art or the art of presenting an embroidery on a drum has become trendy because it corresponds to a need to create oneself while embellishing one's home. Since the confinement of 2020, this desire seems to be more and more present among French people who want to feel good at home. With varied and trendy patterns, this fashion for decorative embroidery has a bright future ahead of it. This is the easiest way to frame an embroidery by leaving it directly on its support, but also the least expensive. Modern embroidery combines the desire to create and take time for oneself with the desire to have a pleasant cocoon that one loves to adorn with one's own creations.
