
The sizes that SweetPea digitizes to are listed in the following table and in their Help Center. SweetPea, as most other digitizers, use the industry standards for their designs. These sizes have not been arbitrarily set by SweetPea.) Confusing and muddled for sure! (And remember these are industry standards. This means a 150x240mm hoop cannot handle a 6×10 design even though some embroidery companies refer to it as 6×10. As stated in the paragraph above, the industry standard of a 6×10 hoop is 160×260 mm or 6.29×10.2 inches. It has a stitching field of 6×9.6 inches and the hoop is sometimes referred to a 6×10 hoop (because we round 6×9.6 up to 6×10). Smaller won’t work even if it is only a fraction of an inch smaller!Ī prime example of how hoop size names have become muddled and confusing due to labeling for both worlds is the 150×240 hoop. However, to stitch out this design a hoop that is capable of stitching 160×260 mm or 6.29×10.2 inches is needed. 160×260 mm is actually 6.29×10.2 inches! Those who live in the “inches” world call it 6×10. What does a “6×10 block” really mean? Industry standards state that a 6×10 size hoop is one that measures 160×260 millimeters. Lets use the 6×10 size for this discussion. The description for the Dog Table Runner indicates that the blocks can be made for a 5×7, 6×10, and 8×12 hoop. Lets delve into these muddled details using SweetPea’s Dog Table Runner. So it is important and necessary to understand the capabilities (and limitations) of the hoops that you own. On occasion, this has caused frustration for the home machine embroiderer.


As a result, names associated with hoop sizes have become somewhat muddled. 0393701 inches! While embroidery machine companies and the digitizers operate in the world of small, precise millimeters, they also need to accommodate those who view numbers through the inches lens. 039 inches? Well, not really – it is actually. The stitch outs for embroidery designs need to be precise. As home machine embroiderers, we are caught in the middle because the industry needs to cater to both. And some of us view them through an inches/feet/yards lens. Some of us view numbers through a millimeter/centimeter/meter lens.

When it comes to numbers, we live in two different worlds.
