I keep meaning to get around to doing this with my cooler fabrics-- thanks for the reminder.

I made a few of these using woodland fabric and these weird rubberized faux bois embroidery frames that Michaels had on sale. I unapologetically hate sewing, but I love fabric, so this was a very attractive idea. They look great, and they're also really cheap to make...almost free if you have a dedicated stash of fabric scraps. My husband loves the ones I made and keeps asking when we can hang them in the nursery (soon enough).

I fell in loooove with some fabric I was planning on using to make my daughter's crib skirt Then we ended buying a Gulliver crib which sits too low to the ground for a crib skirt. I ended up using it as art work in her room, a la embroidery hoops. We're moving now and I don't think I will keep the hoops when I redo her nursery in our new town. I guess my love affair was short-lived!

I have a collection of these above the tv. Helps soften the hard lines of technology.

I have loved this since I saw Graham's nursery on hgtv.com's Rate My Space, and checked out her blog. We're expecting a girl this May and this past weekend I went to Joann's and bought about 9 hoops in different sizes and 9 different fabric quarters. It looks so awesome and it cost me under $30! I hung them in a grouping over her crib and I love it so much. It brings some great color to the nursery.

Uggg! I don't mean to be a negative nelly but I am so sick of these! I love fabrics too so I made those easy hand-sewn birds (that probably lots of other people are sick of). Also, a love of fabric can translate to a love of decorative paper which is cheaper and easier to work with!

I don't think this will ever get old for me! I am working on one for the kitchen that will incorporate some actual cross-stitch projects that I have as well as old embroidered napkins that my husband's grandmother made. I can't wait to finish it up!

I have one in my youngest girl's room which I purchased of the talented people at Etsy.

However I would love many more and since none of my friends children have them in their rooms, for our crowd at least they are a little different.

Certainly none of my sisters kids have them in their rooms ( and they live in New Zealand).

I tried this over our bed, but the fan we use at night blew a few of the hoops off the wall. Oops! Any ideas on how to hang them better or weight them at the bottom? I also used one existing hole and some Command hooks, and the arrangment didn't feel balanced. I will probably just take them down soon and hang more traditional framed art.

orangeblossom, I would imagine that adding some beans or another type of small weight to the open part of the hoop, then covering the opening with lightweight cardboard affixed with a reasonably strong glue would work. Might take a wee bit of experimenting, but it seems like something simple along those lines would work.

Side note: This is not a new trend in the least. I mentioned my hoops to my grandmother a few weeks ago and she mentioned that her mother did this in the 40s and that she had a few fabric hoops before I was born. The conversation led me to remember that my mother also had a few in our first house in the early 80s!

PS To weigh them down just hot glue a few fishing weights to the bottom rim. No backing necessary. ^_^