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Trailing Blossoms Cap Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on September 21, 2021

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Experienced

TIME REQUIRED

00:30

Description

Get stylish with your wide cap frame stitching this unique design on the left front and side of the cap. It will be a favorite with your cap wearing friends.

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Materials

Wide cap embroidery hoop

Low or mid-profile structured or structured cap

4” x 20” crisp tear-away cap stabilizer

Optional: Assorted bulldog clips from office supply store

Designs used in this project

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

Step 1:

This is a roll of tear-away cap stabilizer, you can find it in 4” and 4.5” widths. If you are going to stitch a lot of caps I highly recommend that you purchase some as it provides a smooth taut surface for cap embroidery. For home machines use the 4” width, for commercial machines that have a taller cap limits the 4.5” width is best. If you do not have cap stabilizer use the crispiest 2.5 or 3 ounce tear-away stabilizer cut to 4” x 20”.

Step 2:

Wrap the stabilizer all the way around the cap hoop for these types of designs. If you have holes in the bottom of the cap frame, tuck the ends of the stabilizer in the holes to keep it taut while hooping the cap.

Step 3:

Make sure the wire band fits into the sweat band seam on the side of the cap as well as in the seam where it crosses the crown of the cap.

Step 4:

Make sure the left side of the cap is tautly pulled the back of the cap frame. Be careful to pull the cap side straight back to the bars on the back of the cap frame. On the cotton twill structured cap it was difficult to get the little clips that come with the machine to hold the cap fabric and backing. A slightly larger bulldog clip from the office supply store proved to be a lot stronger and did not pop off the cap hoop bar. It is easier to put on the clips if you release the stabilizer from the holes in the cap hoop before applying the clip.

Step 5:

Load the cap onto the machine and then move the cap to the right to center the design over the seam to the left side of the front of the cap. The green cross marks the center of the design on the computer screen. The red cross represents the center of the cap.

Step 6:

The cap should now be positioned like this picture, where needle one is directly over the left front side seam.

Step 7:

When you start sewing the cap will move to the side front panel and start embroidering the flowers there.

Step 8:

Yes, there are 26 color changes in this design as each flower and its center must be embroidered separately to ensure registration while sewing them around the curve of the cap.

Step 9:

Reload the design for each successive cap to get the cap frame driver to re-center itself. This design stitches well on both structured and unstructured caps.

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.

Trailing Blossoms Cap Embroidery Project

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Trailing Blossoms Wide Cap