Embroidered Beanie Using A Homemade Patch - Nightmare Before Christmas

Sometimes embroidering directly onto something is well… difficult. We’ve experienced this many times over our embroidery journey. So, when we found out you could just embroider onto a separate piece of fabric and then adhere it onto something else we were pumped! Of course it’s not necessary for all our embroidery projects but for a beanie we thought it would be a whole lot easier.

Gather your supplies:

Your beanie
Your embroidery fabric ( we just used some white duck canvas we had left over from a previous craft project)
Embroidery floss
Embroidery needle
Scissors
An embroidery hoop that fits your fabric
Fabric glue (We have recently switched to this glue and we will never go back)
Heat erase pen ( you could use a regular pen but we find that a pen that erases really comes in handy when your crafting)

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Step 2: Cut your fabric to size. Just make sure its a little larger than your embroidery hoop and it’s the right size to fit on your beanie. It could really be any size that you want.

Step 3: Draw out your design. We were making this for a nightmare before Christmas lover. So, obviously we went with a classic image from the movie.

Step 4: Embroider your design. This is where things start to get fun!

Step 5: Remove your fabric from your hoop and give it a quick press with an iron. This will also erase any visible pen left behind.

Step 6: Carefully cut out your shape from your embroidered fabric. Make sure you leave a small border all the way around so you can sew around it for extra stability.

Step 7: Adhere your image to your beanie. We used fabric glue for this.

Step 8: We used some black embroidery floss to create a border around the image. This acts as extra stability and as nice way to finish the image.

That’s it! This technique really opens up the possibilities for embroidery. It’s a fantastic way to add your embroidery designs to just about anything. Happy crafting!