I operate a reliable Brother home embroidery machine that has served me well thus far. Yesterday, I’ve been approached to embroider 75 caps for a local organization. For those that have experience with a home and commercial machine, is it wise for me to take the job? I know it’s difficult to embroider caps so I’m worried I’ll ruin more caps than I should. What about the embroidery quality between a home and commercial machine when embroidering hats/caps? Any feed back would be great!
I have owned my home machine for 1.5 years now and my commercial machine for over 5 months. I find embroidering hats or caps on my home machine very frustrating! Honestly I don’t know how I was able to put up with it for so long. I guess it was only when I got my commercial machine that I was able to compare the efficiency and productivity between the two. Doing caps on my commercial machine is very easy and the quality of embroidery is superior. For example, small lettering and tiny details is not distorted so much like on my home machine.
I have a home machine. Messing around with pins, spray adhesive, sticky backing, and other unconventional things to flatten the cap in preparation for embroidery is tedious and time consuming. But, it does work (most of the time LOL). The fact is, caps are not flat. It’s much easier to do caps on commercial machines because it uses a special attachment (cap frame) to embroider on caps in their natural shape.
I would recommend that you find a cap company that has a panel program. Basically, you get the caps (panels only) without the bill so you can embroider on them in like you don other flat items. Hope this helps and good luck.
