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.
