Stitch Era - creating embroidery patches

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Introduction

This article describes how to create embroidery patches, also called cloth badges for example, and that you can attach to cloth by various means.

A typical embroidery patch has the following properties

• It is stitched on some solid fabric (or special plastic)
• It usually covers the whole surface
• It is relatively small, i.e. 3cm to 8cm
• It can have various shapes, e.g. astronaut patches are round.

The difficulty consists in getting the borders right.

Example study - 3D printing badge

Let us start with a 3D printed hand from the noun-project. Before importing it to Stitch Era we made it 8cm by 8cm

• Create a contour with offset.