Teaching Appliqué Embroidery to an ABSOLUTE Beginner

Do you want to learn how to master appliqué embroidery? In this episode of Embroidery Hub, we’ll teach you everything you need to know as a beginner when it comes to appliqué. We’ll go over each step in the process, from what materials you’ll need, to tips and tricks for using our Chroma digitizing software, and much more. We'll also give you a first-hand demonstration of the appliqué process as we embroider our custom design onto a comfy sweatshirt. By the end, you’ll be ready to take your embroidery to the next level with this fun and popular technique.

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00:00 Intro
00:54 Materials
01:20 Digitizing demo
18:11Appliqué embroidery prep
19:44 Embroidery demo
22:30 Appliqué prep
24:43 Appliqué embroidery demo
28:38 Product reveal & product potential

We begin this episode by going over the materials you’ll need, before giving you a full demo of how to digitize an appliqué design using Chroma. Along the way, we also offer some key tips and tricks to make your digitizing go smoothly.

Then, we show you how to prep your sweatshirt for embroidery, including how to properly hoop your garment. We also show you the proper embroidery machine settings you’ll need for a project like this, before going over how to prep your appliqué in detail so your design will come out perfectly. After we finish embroidering our appliqué sweatshirt, we reveal the final product and discuss the potential profit you could make from this type of custom garment.