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Wedding Party Caps Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on September 15, 2021

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Intermediate

TIME REQUIRED

00:15

Description

Great fun for the rehearsal, the bachelorette and bachelor parties, wedding caps are quick to stitch out. Stitch them up in the traditional black and white or in colors to match the wedding theme.

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Materials

Cap frame

Mid-crown constructed or unconstructed caps

Crisp tear-away stabilizer

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/bdgr01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/bdgr02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/bdgr03

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

These caps stitch in only 5 or 6 minutes. I put the time down as 15 minutes to give you ample time to hoop the hat properly.
Follow your machines manual to properly set up your cap frame. All thumb screws must be tight. Correct hooping is important to the success of your design. There are several different types of cap frames on the market. The one used in these instructions is a wide-cap frame. Please refer to your manual for hooping instructions if your cap frame is different.

Step 1:

As these designs are on the front of the cap you are only required to cut a crisp tear-away stabilizer 4” x 11”. For the cap frame on this machine I prefer to cut it a 20” x 4” piece as the stabilizer can be fully wrapped around the cap hoop and tucked into the bottom of the frame. This helps keep the stabilizer in place while hooping the cap.

Step 2:

Remove the cardboard insert from inside the cap. Flex the bill of the cap to make it as straight as possible. Open the closure on the back of the cap.

Step 3:

Pull the sweatband out from inside the cap and open the straps on the back of the caps. Place the cap on the cap frame pulling the sweatband forward all the way into the hoop. Align the center of the cap with the line on the sweatband holder.

Step 4:

Bring the wire band across the cap. The inside of the wire band goes on the inside of the bill, the notched outside band needs to sit on the side seams, where the sweatband is sewed to the cap, across the top seam where, the bill is sewn to the crown, and across the side seam on the far side of the cap. Hook the closing clasp to the right-hand section of the frame, but don’t totally lock it into place yet.

Step 5:

Check that the center seam of the cap is aligned with the cap hoop and that the cross bar has stayed across the seam of the crown and bill before locking the clasp.

Step 6:

Smooth the sides of the cap to the bars at the bottom of the hat hoop, make sure you are smoothing them straight back and not pulling in the crown of the cap, as to do so would take the ease out of the crown which is necessary for the up and down movement of the cap frame driver. Clip both sides of the cap to the bars at the bottom of the hoop.

Step 7:

Push the bill of the cap towards the bill cover, bring the bill holder all the way up and over the bill.

Step 8:

Attach the hoop to the machine. There are three rollers where the cap frame needs to be securely attached to the cap frame driver. Make sure you can feel or hear each of these rollers be secured. You can pull slightly on the bottom of the frame to make sure it is engaged.

Step 9:

Load the design into your machine. When you go the next page of the software this machine automatically turns the design upside down. If your machine does not automatically do so, do so with the rotate button on the screen. It is after the embroidery button is pushed in this software that you can move the design closer to the crown of the cap. I usually move the design as close to the crown that the software will allow and then back up two or three little steps just to not be pushing the limits. Slow down your machine speed to 500 to 600 stitches per minute for the best cap stitching.

Step 10:

Stitch the design. These wedding party caps will stitch in 5 to 6 minutes.

Step 11:

Tear away the stabilizer. Turn the sweat back into position and close the back fasteners. Bend the cap bill back into its curved shape.

Step 12:

If the caps will be stored before the wedding, place the cardboard inserts back into the cap to assist in keeping its proper shape.

Step 13:

Congratulations your wedding party caps are complete. Be sure to make a Squad cap for each bridesmaid and groomsmen in the wedding party.

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

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