Here are 7 Tips to Help You Make Embroidery Look Its Best on Caps.

Embroidery is a great way to personalize your favorite hats, especially if you're new to it. Here are 7 tips that will help you embroider designs on hats with ease and save you a lot of unnecessary frustration. Trying to get high-quality embroidery designs on hats can be a real challenge when you're new to embroidery, but with a little practice and experimentation, you can overcome many challenges.

For best results, always start designing from the bottom up and from the center out. For better registration, if possible, complete one part of the design before moving on to the next.

Embroidered designs on standard hats should be no more than 2.10 inches high, and if you are using a low profile hat, usually no more than 2 inches high. I try to keep all my hat designs within the 2" tall category. Many times, your customers will want a repeat order, but if they decide to change the cap type for the new order, you may run into problems if the original design doesn't fit the new cap.

Sometimes, if you have more than 1 line of lettering, or if your design has a long line of small lettering at the bottom, 2 inches is too high for the design. This can be a real problem. Your underlined letters may pull up in the center of the cap.

Make sure the bottom of the design is at least a half inch from the seam where the front of the lid and brim are sewn together. If you are working on the front of a hard hat, your lettering may become distorted if you sew too close to the bottom of the hat. A lot depends on how the cover is made and how rigid it is attaching to the brim at the very bottom of the front. When you hoop your hat, you must ensure that your hat faces the brim that actually fits snugly into the hat frame unit. If that doesn't work, you'll have to shorten the design to compensate or twist your lettering in the opposite direction. Sometimes, simply shortening the height of the design and moving it up slightly on the front of the lid will do the trick.

If you are using an embroidery design for the hat created for the left chest, it is not always possible without editing the design to get it embroidered correctly on the hat. If you have letters on the bottom of the cover, you'll have better results if you edit your design so that the letter is stitched out first. I find this works best. Make sure your font is set to seam center. If your font doesn't have a spliced ​​center, you'll need to reorder the font.

Always use a hat backing when you loop your hat no matter how heavy or stiff your hat is. This will also help produce a higher quality embroidery design on your hat. A 3-ounce tear-off lid backing is the best choice.

If you're using a hard cap, such as a FlexFit cap; I've found that steam pressing the cap first softens the backing and flattens the top of the cap. This brings the hat closer and flatter against the needle plate and helps to embroider designs on the hat more easily. This is especially important when you are embroidering designs on youth size hats. They are smaller and it is more difficult to lay them flat on the needle board.

Iterates through the machine on first boot. I mean, when you hit the start button, keep your finger on it and don't let up. This will allow the machine to sew one stitch at a time and it will go through the really thick parts of the seam. When you press the start button in the normal way, the machine is running at a fast speed. This can cause the needle to deflect and break when trying to stitch those thick areas. I believe you have seen it. If you go with the machine first, it will start very slowly, you will avoid this from happening and it will help you embroider designs on hats with ease.

Hopefully, these tips will help you make the design of your hat easier and make it more enjoyable to use a hat than it has ever been in the past. This can be quite frustrating until you learn how to sew patterns on hats with ease. Caps are a true money-maker; they can be your biggest moneymaker, so it's a great advantage to learn how to sew designs on a hat.