Find a design like a smiley face, yin yang sign, or cherries. You can also use a short word or phrase like “peace” or “love. ” While previous sewing experience is helpful, you can try embroidering your own patch even if you’ve never sewn before.
If you still can’t see the design through the fabric, hold both layers up to a nearby window so you can see the lines clearly. You can use any piece of fabric. To make durable, attractive patches, use canvas material in a neutral color.
Keep your fabric tight when you secure your hoop. It will be more difficult to complete your designs if the fabric is loose in your hoop.
When you run out of string, simply cut another and threat it through your needle. You can also do this to change the color of your thread.
Your fabric is now ready to become a patch!
You can cut your patch into a square, rectangle, circle, or triangle, for example.
You can use 1 sheet to make 1 patch. If you have multiple small patches, you can likely fit both on the same sheet. Purchase Fabric Fuse sheets at most craft stores or online.
Once you cut all sides of your patch, you are ready to iron it onto your jacket, backpack, baseball hat, or whatever you’d like!
You can make virtually any design into a patch, though it’s best to start out with simple designs. Avoid designs with complicated linework or intricate details until you master this method.
To create your patch, you will use your sewing machine to fill in your design with zigzag stitches.
Sewing with bold, thick stitches allows you to fill in your design quickly and easily. Use a higher numbered stitch length if you want a longer, flatter stitch. Use small numbers if you want your stitches to be close together. Change the width to a higher number if you want bigger zigzags, and try smaller sizes if you want to create tighter zigzags.
Working from your longest edge is a good place to start, but you can start virtually anywhere!
Sew your line until you reach about 1⁄8–1⁄4 in (0. 32–0. 64 cm) from the edge of your fabric.
You want your needle to remain in the sewing machine as you change the direction of your stitches.
If you are making multiple small patches, you can stick a few patches to 1 sheet of Peel ‘n Stick Fabric Fuse.
You can make your patch whatever size you like! If you want a small patch, go with a design about 2 by 2 inches (5. 1 cm × 5. 1 cm). For larger patches, use designs 4 by 4 inches (10 cm × 10 cm) or larger.
If you’d like, print a test page with regular printer paper before you use the transfer sheet. That way, you can change the size if you need to.
The back of the inkjet transfer sheet should face you. Typically, thick fabric like canvas or muslin are often used. Go with fabric in a neutral color, like tan or white. However, you can use basically any fabric you’d like.
Make sure you cover every edge so the entire image transfers properly.
Your image is now transferred over to your patch!
If you don’t have fabric scissors, that’s okay! You can use a sharp pair of household scissors. Fabric scissors help cut straight, accurate lines in all sorts of materials.
Once you trim your patch, the last thing you need to do before ironing it to your items is attaching the iron-on adhesive. After that, you can iron your patch onto anything you’d like.
