Custom Designed Embroidery Patches In Few StepsCustom Designed Embroidery Patches In Few Steps
Whether you’re looking for the punk rock aesthetic embroidered patches or maybe you just want something cute and easy out of a Hallmark catalog, here are few easy steps to designing your own custom embroidery patches. For this exercise, you will need:
- A pair of scissors
- An embroidery hoop
- A ballpoint pen
- An embroidery needle
- Canvas or any other stiff fabric suitable for patches.
- Colored embroidery floss
The steps to designing your own embroidery patches
Step 1
Using a pair of scissors, cut out a square piece of canvas or fabric. From here, use your ballpoint pen to sketch your design onto the piece of canvas. Insert the piece of cut canvas in between the rings of your embroidery hoop. Take care to ensure that the canvas is pulled taut (this will make sewing your designs easier later on) and let the excess canvas hang loose.
Step 2
Now, cut a length of colored embroidery floss and thread it through the eye of your needle. While doing this make sure your embroidery floss is extra long so that you don’t run out of floss halfway through. After threading your needle, tie a knot near the eye of the needle so that the floss doesn’t run lose. Then, tie another knot at the end of the floss so that it doesn’t run through the canvas.
Step 3
Start by pushing your needle through the canvas from
the back side to the front side (the front side being the area where you …