On this episode of Embroidery Hub, Willy takes on a last-minute order to embroider 60 caps in just one day! Can he complete the entire order from digitizing to embroidery and still meet the deadline? With the help of Ricoma’s 12-head CHT2 embroidery machine, it might just be possible. Watch to find out!
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Need to embroider 60 caps in just a few hours? No problem! To start this herculean task, you will first need to digitize the design given to you by the client. Willy walks you through every step of the digitizing process to make sure it is ready for cap embroidery.
When choosing between auto-digitizing and manual digitizing, it is always best to do digitize manually if your design has a lot of details since you will need to make many adjustments if you auto digitize.
When manually digitizing your design, you want to start with the border. In this case, Willy decided to use a stile stitch, but you can use any type of stitch you’d like to form a border around your design.
Next, you want to fill in any background colors. Overlap the background just a little bit with your border to ensure that there are no gaps when the border embroiders at the end.
Afterward, you can start focusing on the small details. Carefully trace all your details and convert them into the stitch type of your choosing. Make sure to delete all the angle lines and set ones of your own to ensure all your stitching is going in the direction you want it to.
The final detail you need to work on is lettering. You can choose any font you want for your design, but be sure to remove the underlay for all small lettering and increase the space between them so they do not bunch together.
After your design is digitized, make sure to view the stitching time-lapse to ensure the direction and order your design stitches in is correct. Once you are satisfied with that, you can move on to testing your embroidery.
In the video, Willy runs a test on just one cap to see if his design stitched out the way he wanted it to. He repeated the process twice and fixed any inconsistencies in his digitizing before deciding it was ready to embroider on all 12 hats at once using the Ricoma 12-head CHT2.
After setting up the machine, it only took a few hours to complete the 5 runs on the 12-head necessary to complete the 60-cap order.
With the order finally complete, Willy runs us through the profitability of completing an order like this on a regular workday. Caps typically cost about $4-$5 to embroider, including the cost of thread, and if you sell them for $20 each, you could easily make close to $900 in just one day!
Finally, we have 3 pro tips for you to take away from this episode.
First, when digitizing for a cap, always make sure your stitches start at the bottom and make their way to the top of the design. Also, be sure that you set your design to embroider from the middle towards the outside to keep the cap from shifting.
Second, be sure to center your cap as much as possible when hooping. This is one of the most important things to keep in mind when hooping caps for a multi-head machine because they all move in tandem when you embroider and any differences in the hooping can cause your embroidery to be inconsistent.
Lastly, a great time-saving tip is to start hooping your next round of caps while your first batch is still embroidering. This way, you can easily switch out the cap rings on your cap stations when one batch is finished and reduce your production time by half!
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