How to Make A 6-Sided Hat with Puff Embroidery

All you need to do is let us know what you want embroidered on a hat. We will give you the appropriate design and procedure. The 3D puff embroidery on hats is one of the simplest ways you can test our service and get an idea of how good our work is. In this article, Eagle Digitizing will show you an easy way to apply 3D bubble embroidery on your hat, so that you can get more customers in the future.

3D Puff Embroidery

3D Puff Embroidery 3D Puff Embroidery is an embroidery in which objects/figures project from the bottom to provide a 3D look.

As can be seen from the name, 3D Puff embroidery can make the design fluffy or bold, and can be seen from far away. In 3D puff embroidery, foam is used between hat and embroidery. After sewing, the powder puff can be fixed in place. This foam has a variety of thicknesses ranging from 2mm to 3mm. After sewing, 3D Puff will be removed from the design, but your design will remain intact on customized hats, hats, clothing and other clothing items. You can hide this foam using lines of the same color or applying multi line stitching.

Note: It is recommended that you avoid using hard foam because you must remove it at the end of the process. If this foam is hard, it will be difficult to remove and will damage your embroidery.

The raised part of 3D puff embroidery can be any letter, logo or other design on the hat or clothing. Therefore, those who want to promote their brands and need high-quality sports hats, couple hats and uniform hats can carry out 3D bubble embroidery, bubble logo embroidery, design or other symbols on hats or clothing.

Selection and Positioning of 3D Puff Embroidery Design of Hat

3D Puff embroidery is not limited to the front of the hat. You can sew it on the left front, side and back of the hat. This can be tricky, however, because the seams of the six piece hat extend along the center of the embroidery area. It is important to ensure that you choose the right style for your 3D puff embroidery design. Due to the thick or convex appearance, 3D Puff embroidery takes up more space on the hat, and the space on both sides of the hat is limited. The best place for 3D Puff embroidery is on the front or back of the hat. It is recommended to use round or block letters (0.25-0.33 inch wide) for 3D Puff embroidery. In order to create artwork, try using rounded corners, where your needle is completely perforated in the design and foam for stitching.

Steps of 3D Bubble Embroidery

Let's take a look at the steps of an embroidered hat with 3D Bubble embroidery.

Step 1 - Put the required materials together

Pick up a hat - The first step in 3D puff embroidery is to choose a hat according to your choice. A large number of hat designs are available on the Internet for free. Baseball cap, daddy cap, flat top cap, sports cap, etc., you can choose what you want to wear. The structured hat is the 3D bubble embroidery I chose to achieve high-quality effects.

Embroidery needle (Use a needle that allows multiple strands of thread to pass through.)

Embroidery thread

Make sure to use a wide range of line colors. It is an important part of any type of embroidery.

Foam – used to give your design a 3D look. Use 2-3 mm thick white or black foam.

Embroidery machine

It is the same machine used for other types of embroidery. This machine comes in many sizes.

Computer and software

These are used to digitize 3D puff embroidery designs before files are transferred to the machine.

Embroidered hoop

Before locking the cap on the machine, place your cap on the hoop to hold it in place. These hoops move during machine embroidery to create a design.

Glue spray

When used for 3D puff embroidery, foam is adhered to the target position.

Hot air gun or sharp tweezers

It is used to tear off excess foam from 3D bubble embroidery design or heat foam so that it can be easily removed at the end of embroidery cap with 3D bubble embroidery.

Step 02: Digitize the 3D puff embroidery design and transfer it to the machine

After picking up the hat, the next step is to create the design. Let's take the capital T as an example. In the case of 3D puff embroidery, digital letters must follow some basic rules.

First, use the split tool in the software to convert letters from text to segments in vector form. Make three letters T, and give them different colors according to your convenience.

Check the sequence view to view the running stitches in each segment, and delete redundant stitches if necessary.

Draw the outline of the letter with a connecting stitch, change the stitch to 1.5mm, and convert it into a bean stitch that is connected for many times according to the requirements of 3D puff embroidery. It runs one stitch forward and two stitches backward, usually called triple run.

Then make sure that the starting point of each segment is at the starting point of the end point of the previous segment. Line up the points of each block and ensure that they do not overlap the next segment.

Turn to the top and add a cover at the open end, and connect the two covers with sewing thread.

Now that your design is ready, you can print it to see the exact size of the embroidery. Alternatively, you can now save it as a DST file and transfer it according to the type of design file that the machine can read, enter elements as direction and line color sequences, and set the machine to manual/automatic mode.

Step 03 - Add hoops

Now I want to connect the cap hoop to the machine. At the top of the basket, there is a small plate with a line on it. I want to line up in front of my hat. Pull out the sweat band from under the hat, fix it with the band, and then fasten the hat on the machine.

Step 04 - Add 3D Embroidery foam

Once you finish the embroidery, cut out the foam now. Cut the foam half an inch larger than the finished embroidery. Sometimes you need to adjust the size.

The thick foam makes the 3D puff embroidery design stand out from the hat. It is important to change the color during 3D puff embroidery. Once you have finished the work of a color, stop your embroidery machine. Then cut a piece of foam large enough to cover the rest of the design and repeat the process for different colors. The color of foam should be close to the color of thread used to sew 3D puff embroidery design. Foam has only one basic color and cannot match each line color. So people usually use white foam to make light colors, and black foam to make all dark colors.

STEP 05 - STARTING THE MACHINE

Next, we press Start and machine embroidery, and then start sewing on 3D puff embroidery foam. Outline the foam area, and then sew the satin stitch, so that you can cut the foam and easily remove it. The fluffy part should be sewn at the end. First, stitch all flat parts around the foam. When the needle is inserted, it will produce complete foam, and the excess foam will be pulled away. Now stop the machine to tear off the excess foam and finish the remaining embroidery to cover the foam. Make sure that the part of the design must be large enough so that foam can cover it, giving it a 3D appearance.

Important tips:

Avoid embroidering on puffs as it will flatten them.

The drawing line between the letters should be 3 mm to 10 mm thick, because a greater thickness will produce a more fluffy or 3D effect.

If you use multiple letters on the 3D bubble embroidered cap, you should consider the spacing between them, because foam will cause the shape to expand and narrow the spacing, so if the spacing is not enough, the letters will contact each other.

Covers should be used to place foam and avoid foam bulging at the edges. Padding is not required and pin spacing should be 0.16mm.

Finish your work

When the embroidery machine is finished, the surplus foam can be used. Use sharp tweezers to remove foam. Using the hot air gun will shrink the small pieces of foam, which will disappear from the embroidery, revealing the appearance of the 3D puff embroidery logo/letter on the hat.

This is the end of the post. I'm sure you will like the process of making hats with 3D puff embroidery. Many people don't do 3D puff embroidery. It may be difficult at first, but practice can make people perfect. People not only want this kind of embroidery on hats, but also want to use it on pants, T-shirts and bags. It is recommended that you follow these steps to achieve magical results and please your customers. If you add this 3D puff embroidery to your business, more customers will flock to you together with their families and friends. Therefore, your embroidery business will suddenly rise.