How to Make an Embroidered Patch on the Barudan Elite

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Materials used for making Patches:

  • Quilting cotton with patterned designs - its a bit thin, but looks great with designs, especially with bright colors
  • Twill - I've experimented with Twill iron-on patches and now looking for a source of twill by the yard
  • Spray Adhesive - Dritz Quilting Adhesive Spray - DO NOT USE STANDARD ADHESIVES, they can gum up the needles
  • Standard Stabilizer (I've been using the roll)
  • Water Soluble Stabilizer (Need to note the Pellon # that I've been using)

Prepping the Art: There are a few different ways to approach patch making. You can take an existing embroidery design and a separate applique / patch border and use them together, OR you can design a custom patch file. You need a file that contains a "dieline" which is a single perimeter stitch for placement, a zig-zaf tack down stitch, the patch edge border, and the main design for the patch.




Steps:

  • Art Prep
    • Need the embroidery Design
    • Need an outer circle stitch - I used embird to add a "basting stitch" in the editor.
  • Gather Materials
  • Make a fabric sandwich - front fabric, back fabric - can use the same fabric. Can fuse with adhesive or with a fusable interfacing material
  • Hoop the fabric + standard backing
  • Embroider the dieline on the fabric and backing
Skull-patch-dieline fabric.jpg


Skull-patch-cutout.jpg

Cut the fabric + backing very close to the dieline

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