Puff Embroidery Flat Brimmed Hat

Step 3 Starting the Embroidery

To thread your needle, seperate ALL of the strands of thread, and recombine 3 of them.  This will help the threads lay flat ontop of the foam so the surface looks smoother.

Next I pinned down, with a single stitch, a few places around the design.  I just used a simple up-one-side-down-the-other-side to up-the-first-side-down-the-other-side stitch. I began with the "simple" sections around the jaw which are essentially a variation on a straight line.  After they were well and covered, I moved on to other parts.

An interesting part of the design was how I handled the forehead and lightning bolt.  To cover all of the foam, some thread went from between the eyes, up the lightning bolt, and to the top of the head.  This was the only way I could easily cover the forehead.  After this, I did a diagonal stitch on the lightning bolt, because of the way the thread pressed down the foam, and created a slope.  Horizontal stitches slid out of place and looked weird in the test piece.

Comments

[manouttatime]

So by "seperate ALL of the strands of thread, and recombine 3 of them" do you mean you only use half of your 6 strand thread? Did you really split an entire spool of this stuff into 6 separate strands?

And by "recombine" do you just mean group them or twist it in some way?

I'm looking to make my own hat too. Lids wants to charge $50 per image on top of the Image fee of about $10 on top of a $16 hat. So yeah, same as your $80 quote (if I only do one spot)