When you want to liven up a garment, accessory, luggage piece or even hats you can easily sew on badges to have the fresh look easily. Badges or patches when placed strategically can immediately affect the look of a garment or accessory and take it from boring to spunky in a matter of minutes. Should you have children and they keep earning badges of merit you would like to sew them on. However, as intimidating as it might sound, sewing on badges isn’t very difficult when you know how to do it dog badges.
To do this procedure for sewing on a badge, start with placing the badge in the place where you want it. Now secure the badge well with pins so it stays in place and doesn’t shift when you’re sewing it on. So if you happen to be putting the patch over a garment, you must fix the patch and then try the garment on to ensure that the patch or the badge looks suitable in the place. In case your patch needs a little readjustment you can accomplish it at this time easily.
Now thread the needle ensuring that the thread you are using isn’t very long. Keep the thread on a length of approximately 18inches for easy maneuvering. If the thread is just too long then you might get bothered by knots. After you have the thread ready create a knot at the end of the thread. You can thread a needle manually by holding the non knotted end in between your forefinger and thumb after which passing it in the eye of the needle. It’s also possible to consider the help of a needle threader if you find threading a needle this way difficult.
Pass the needle in the badge and the fabric ensuring that the knot is on the wrong side of the patch. Leave a space of 1/8th of an inch from where you started stitching keeping this distance from your last stitch all of the time. Continue stitching around the entire perimeter of the badge until you have finished stitching it all the way through. Now knot the thread on the underside of the patch by looping your thread by way of a single stitch. Pull the thread securely to secure the knot and after that cut off any excess thread which is left. Lastly take off the excess safety pins that you were using to secure the patch in position custom badges.
You may as well sew on badges with the assistance of a sewing machine if you don’t wish to accomplish the same manually. Pick a thread that matched the color of your patch after which tread your machine. It’s also possible to choose a contrasting color depending on the look that you would like to present your badge. Once this is successfully done you need to start sewing you badge. Makes use of the surface of the badge as your starting point and sew all along the edge of your badge utilizing the regular stitch mode ending in your starting point. Once done, cut the extra thread that connects the badge to the machine and your garment is ready to be used together with the badge.