Knit Shirt, Polo Shirt, Golf shirt, and Staff shirt are just some of the names that are given to this category of knit shirts. These shirts are used in a wide variety of the market and are a very important part of our every day life. As a general rule, these knit shirts have a placket in the front and can have 2 buttons, 3 buttons, 4 buttons, 5 buttons, and sometimes no buttons at all. They are available in children’s sizes, ladies sizes, and men’s sizes.
The largest selling market is the men’s market but the ladies market is becoming increasingly popular. Women want to have a cut that fits them better rather than being forced into wearing a man’s shirt. This is very important when you are selling these types of garments to your market. You need to find a ladies companion style that will work with the men’s style that your customer is requesting.
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The most popular placement for a logo or embroidery design is on the left chest. However, if there is a pocket on the left chest that would interfere with the placement of the design, you would place your design or logo on the right chest. If a shirt is going to have a logo and a name, the name is normally placed on the right chest directly across from and centered with the logo.
Video: Above Pocket Embroidery Design Placement
In the embroidery training video, I will show you how to line up a design for embroidery above a pocket. This is very important. If you do not follow these directions, your design will appear crooked. The line that I have marked on the shirt for the location of the design will actually be the bottom edge of the design. Print out your design sheet and measure up from the bottom of the logo to the center of the logo. Place another mark on your shirt for your starting point before you place it into the machine.
Video: Left Or Right Chest Embroidery Design Placement
This embroidery training video will show you how to mark for the design placement of a logo or embroidered design on either the left chest or the right chest of a polo, golf, or staff shirt. If you are embroidering a nickname on the shirt, it will go on the opposite side of the embroidery.
As a general rule, the logo will go on the left chest and the nickname will go on the right chest. Occasionally, it will go below the embroidery.
Video: Hooping Left Or Right Chest For An Embroidery Design
In this embroidery training video, you will see how to hoop the left chest of a polo, golf, or staff shirt for an embroidery design. This is done flat in this video without a hooping device. This can of course also be done with a hooping device, but you need to know how to do it flat in case you are ever in a situation where you do not have a hooping device that will fit a hoop that you are going to be using.
You can also use 2 layers of No Show backing and 1 layer of 1.5 oz. Crisp Tearaway backing if your shirt is light weight or a light color. This will help to keep it soft, and you will not see the patch of backing from the front of the shirt. This is especially important on the Moisture Wicking or Performance wear shirts!
Video: Left Or Right Chest Embroidery Design Running On Machine
In this embroidery training video, you will see how to properly insert the hooped polo, golf, or staff shirt into the embroidery machine and sew out the design. After placing it into the embroidery machine, reach under the hoop to make sure that your shirt does not get caught before you start the sewing process
Video: How To Place Embroidery Design On a Striped Shirt
This is a Quick Embroidery tip showing you how to place an embroidery design on a striped shirt. This tip will work when you are placing embroidery on any type of a stripe, plaid, or pattern in the fabric. Your design must always line up perfectly with the line of the pattern in the fabric.
Polo, golf, or staff shirts can be embroidered at the top of the sleeve, in the center of the sleeve, and at the sleeve end. The most popular placement is the Sleeve End Embroidery Design. These videos show you how to embroider a sleeve end that has a cuff or a band. If you have a hemmed sleeve end instead of the banded sleeve end, then you would follow the same directions that I have for the T-Shirt Sleeve End Placement.
Video: Sleeve End Embroidery Design Placement
This embroidery training video will show you how to mark for the placement of a logo or embroidered design on the sleeve end of a polo, golf, or staff shirt that has a cuff or band.
Video: How To Hoop The Sleeve End For Embroidery Design
In this video, I show you how to hoop the polo, golf, or staff shirt sleeve end flat. By that I mean, I am not using a hooping device. It is easier to use a hooping device, but you must know how to hoop a sleeve end if you do not have any type of hooping device. This method works very well. If you are using the HoopMaster, hoop it using the Free standing portion of the HoopMaster, as in the next video.
Video: Hooping Sleeve End With The HoopMaster
In this embroidery training video, I show you how easy it is to hoop the sleeve end of a knit polo, golf, or staff shirt using a HoopMaster hooping device. It is much faster, especially if you are doing embroidery for production. It also takes some of the pressure off of your hands. Most sleeve ends will fit right over the end of the 15 cm. template easily. On small sleeves you may have to use the 12 cm. template and hoop.
Video: Sewing Embroidery Design On The Sleeve End
In this embroidery training video, I show you how to properly place the hooped polo, golf, or staff shirt sleeve onto the embroidery machine for sewing the embroidery design. You must be very careful that you are getting the end of the sleeve around the neck of the embroidery machine when you slide the hoop in. Otherwise, the sleeve will be stitched closed.
In this section, I show you how to work with a design on the edge of a collar. You have 3 basic placements. This works for any type of collar on a jacket, sweatshirt, or denim shirt; not just a knit collar on a golf shirt.
Video: Collar Embroidery Design Placement
In the embroidery training video, I show you where to place the design on the collar of a knit polo, golf, or staff shirt. There are basically 3 placement locations for a shirt collar. This same information will work for any collar design placement.
Video: Collar Embroidery Hooping Guidelines
In the embroidery training video, I show you how to hoop a collar edge for an embroidery design on a knit polo, golf, staff, or a woven shirt. If you do not have any type of clamping system or Fast Frames, this works very well. This is a method that I developed many years ago before clamping systems and Fast Frames were created.
Below is an article that may help you. Print it out and place it in your Embroidery Binder.
Link to Article: Hooping a Placket Shirt Collar
Video: Collar Embroidery Running In Machine
In the embroidery training video, I show you how to sew out the collar on a shirt. You can plainly see that this is not a knit collar, but the process is the same for both knits and wovens. On a woven shirt you will simply substitute a medium to heavy weight tear away backing. All collars would work the same.