If you want to liven up a garment, accessory, luggage piece or perhaps hats you could sew on badges to achieve the fresh look easily. Badges or patches when placed strategically can immediately affect the look of a garment or accessory and take it from boring to spunky within just a few minutes. If you have 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 process of sewing on a badge, start by placing the badge on the place in which you desire it. Now secure the badge well with pins to ensure that it stays in place and doesn’t shift when you’re sewing it on. Now if you are putting the patch over a garment, you ought to fix the patch and after that try the garment on to make certain that the patch or the badge looks suitable in the place. If your patch needs a little readjustment you can do it at this stage easily.

Now thread the needle being sure that the thread that you’re using isn’t too long. Keep the thread within a length of approximately 18inches for quick maneuvering. In case your thread is way 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 by hand by holding the non knotted end in between your forefinger and thumb and then passing it via the eye of the needle. You may as well get the help of a needle threader if you find threading a needle like this difficult.

Pass the needle through 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 where you commenced stitching keeping this distance from the last stitch all of 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 way of a single stitch. Pull the thread firmly to secure the knot after which you can cut-off any excess thread that is left. Lastly take off extra safety pins that you were using to secure the patch in position.

You can also sew on badges by using a sewing machine if you don’t want to do the same yourself. Choose a thread that matched the colour of the patch after which you can tread your machine. You could also choose a contrasting color with regards to the look that you like to give your badge. Once this is accomplished you have to start sewing you badge. Utilize the top of the badge as your kick off point and sew all along the edge of your badge using the regular stitch mode ending in your start line. Once done, cut the extra thread that connects the badge to the machine and your garment is ready to be utilized with the badge.