Make Your Own Embroidered Badge

If you want to lend distinction to a uniform or a garment worn to serve any kind of organization, then badges are great way to do it. Whether your organization is cramping or hiking team, the PTA, scouting troop or any group of motivated people, you can use embroidered badge to symbolize them.

First of all, carefully decide on the themes of your badge. Choose the writing and image that you want to feature on your badge. You can use image, writing or the combination of both. Keep your image minimal and writing simple and short. Start drawing flew layouts of your badge; color them to make sure that your colors really work. Plan out this technique very well until you can execute it effectively. Then, decide on the shape and size of your badge. Draw your shape or size and add image and text elements into it.

Remember that, they must fit your specified size and shape. Carefully decide the background color of embroidered badge. You have to use the cotton twill for your background color. It must provide right amount of contrast to your badge. With the help of regular pencil, trace your badge on a new plane piece of paper. By turning the tracing over and coloring the required area with pencil, make it as dark as you can. With the help of this tracing you can transfer your badge image onto your cloth.

After this, keep your cotton twill on the flat surface and tape it down with masking tape. Trace the exact shape of the badge with the help of blunt-tipped pencil, and then lift the transfer gently. Your texts and images should be transferred onto the cloth. Slowly fill the missing details using sharp pencil, if some of it is too faint for your eyes. Embroider your elements, text, images by the use of pencil tracing and thread the needle with embroidery floss.

You can use needle with three strands of floss for larger badges to fill up spaces more quickly. You can use single or double strands of embroidery floss, for smaller badges. When the design and text is completed, satin stitch the full border of embroidered badge by the use of stitches. These stitches should be 1/8th of an inch perpendicular to the line marking badge's border.

Take out the cloth from embroidery hoop. Carefully cut out your badge, with the help of sewing scissors and leaving behind 1/16th of an inch fabric around satin stitched border. Take wax paper, tear it off and place on the flat surface. Turn the badge so that it should lie face down on wax paper. Take fabric glue and place it all around the badge border. Then move fabric glue towards the center of the badge black. With help of paintbrush, squeeze few drops of glue on back's center, and evenly coat the badge with thin coat of glue. After then dry and sew badge onto a garment. In this way you can easily make your embroidered badge.

Of course, if you do not want to do your own by hand, you can have an embroidery company digitize your badge and can sew the badge directly onto your apparel.