Ways to sew on badges manually or by machine

When you wish to spice up a garment, accessory, luggage piece or even hats you can easily sew on badges to have the new look easily. Badges or patches when placed strategically can immediately replace the look of a garment or accessory and take it from boring to spunky within just a few minutes. When you’ve got children and they keep earning badges of merit you would want to sew them on. However, as intimidating as it might sound, sewing on badges isn’t very difficult when you know the way to do it.

To do this procedure for sewing on a badge, start with placing the badge to the place for which you desire it. Now secure the badge well with a few pins so it stays in place and doesn’t shift when you’re sewing it on. If you are 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 most suitable in the place. In case your patch requires a little readjustment it can be done at this stage easily.

Now thread the needle making sure that the thread that you are using isn’t very long. Keep the thread on a length of approximately 18inches for simple maneuvering. In case your thread is simply too long then you might get bothered by knots. Once you’ve the thread ready make a knot at the end of the thread. You can actually thread a needle manually by holding the non knotted end between your forefinger and thumb after which passing it via the eye of your needle. You may as well consider the help of a needle threader if you find threading a needle in such a manner 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 which you started stitching keeping this distance from your last stitch all the time. Continue stitching round the entire perimeter of the badge till you have finished stitching it all the way through. Now knot the thread on the underside of the patch by looping your thread by using a single stitch. Pull the thread securely to secure the knot after which you can cut off any excess thread that’s left. Lastly remove the excess safety pins that you were using to secure the patch in place.

It’s also possible to sew on badges through the help of a sewing machine in case you don’t want to do the same yourself. Pick a thread that matched the colour of your patch after which you can tread your machine. You can also select a contrasting color depending on the look that you like to give your badge. Once this is done you have to start sewing you badge. Makes use of the top of the badge for your starting position and sew all across the edge of your badge utilizing the regular stitch mode ending at your starting position. Once done, cut any additional thread that connects the badge to the machine and your garment is ready for use with the badge.