In the example on the left I used Compositions project based embroidery software to divide a border skirt design into 5 separate hoopings. Because you can always go back and forth between your individual hoopings (we call them locations) and the view of the entire garment you can see how the entire design is going to look before you sew it out. This allows you to quickly and easily make minor color and placement adjustments to make sure the design works well as a whole. This elliminates a lot of the guess work you couldn't completely avoid before. To see a full demo of Compositions go to http://www.annthegran.com/kparsons/SWF/KP%20Compositions%20Web%20Final.html