For these types of designs, use tear away stabilizer in your hoop to hold the satin stitches, but provide a clean edge when the stabilizer is removed. The roaring dinosaur has a satin edge but it is offset from the design by a specified distance.
The fox patch above has white satin stitching all around, and right next to, the embroidery design. The Superman patch has satin-stitched border around the circle. Finally, you can create a patch that has no border at all. You could also just leave a bit of the base fabric around your embroidered design. You can also create a patch with the satin-stitched border offset from the design by some distance that you choose. Another option is for the satin-stitched edge to outline the design along the design’s edge. The shape can be a circle, rectangle, oval, or any number of closed shapes that you desire. Create a badge of some shape around the design you want on the patch. There are several options for creating your patch.
Take care when using a fabric that ravels especially if you are leaving any fabric to show around the embroidered design. Felt, wool, twill, and denim are all good choices. The Patch Design The Base FabricĬreate your iron-on patch on a fabric that is smooth in texture and does not stretch or distort when embroidered. In this blog, I’ll show you a couple of methods that will give you a patch with a clean edge that can be ironed on a project. With simple materials, you can create a iron-on patch with your embroidery machine. I’m happy to say that making patches is really easy. Who wants to do that? So I suggested she create an iron-on patch for the pocket, and that gave me the idea for my next blog! However, there is no way she could do that in a hoop unless she removed the pocket for embroidering and then sewed the pocket back on when finished. A friend of mine wanted to put some embroidery on the back pocket of her granddaughter’s jeans.