Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
Not a job I'd want to take on either but if I had to do it I would cheat. I'd have my BFF digitize a stitch pattern for the shape of the patch and I'd sew them on a free arm embroidery machine.
Cari
Sneaky! But wouldn’t that would take all of the fun out of it?
Back in 2012, one of the state penal groups got new uniforms, and between them, the bikers, the Scouts, and a few medical personnel, my wife and I sewed 832 embroidered patches on that year. The penal patches came in groups of 150 to 250 (3 patches per garment) at a time. Nearly all, except the few biker patches, were sewn one patch at a time by me on a vintage 1970s Singer 834 Stylist, and the rest by my wife on a vintage 1950s Singer 401A. The biker patches were sewn (some by both of us) on one at a time with either a vintage 1960s Consew 225, or a vintage 1940s Singer 29K70.
It was interesting to see boxes full of uniform shirts and coats being wheeled in on a hand truck and stacked 5 high next to my sewing machine....and that happened three times....
We normally only sew 200-300 patches on per year.
CD in Oklahoma