@Loves Branding, THANK YOU FOR THE COMPARISON VIDEO! I ordered Sulky embroidery foam yesterday and it should arrive today. Several years ago, I used craft foam on sunhats and items that will not be washed. I recently saw a video that stated if you’re using foam for an item that will be washed, you need to make certain that you use embroidery foam that is designed to be washed. Also, I noticed some people lightly and carefully use a heat gun to “shrink the foam” where it peaks out after clean up.
I love Gunold foam but this video is older and I know a few other companies have a dense foam option that I didn't get to test out. Definitely worth investing into a heat gun to clean it up after. Its a minimal difference but these small things will make it look better! I personally like this tube style heat gun I got: amzn.to/3wWFc67
So glad I caught this video. I've done very little foam embroidery because of (fear) my lack of knowledge. Great demo. Did you use a 'foam' font or just a regular embroidery font? I've been told you MUST use a foam font and it's not necessary.
You want to use a foam font or get your file created for foam. The main reason is because you want the threads to be a lot more dense than standard to help keep the foam from showing through the threads.
Thank you! That was really helpful! I am new to the foam embroidery so do we need to buy a special font to do foam or can we use one of our Block fonts that we use for regular embroidery?
Thanks for watching, glad it helped! For foam, the embroidery file needs to be digitized in a specific way to make sure it comes out properly. Hatch has a great brief article explaining it (link below). Some basic digitizing programs may have pre-digitized fonts in their library for puff such as the one I used. If yours doesn't, you may need to purchase a font pack or pay to have it custom digitized for you. blog.hatchembroidery.com/how-to-digitize-for-3d-puffy-foam-machine-embroidery/
I have not. Honestly, once I found the Gunold foam, I haven't found another one that compares as well to it. It would definitely be worth checking out though since I like having alternatives for suppliers in chase someone runs out
I haven't, most of my 3d puff that I do is on hats so they don't get washed often but this would be a great idea to test them. I would still bet the Gunold foam comes out on top after a wash test though. Thanks for the idea!
You can buy it directly from Gunold: www.gunold.com/embroidery-supplies/embroidery-puffy-foam/dense/ There are manufacturers on Alibaba/Aliexpress but I have not found one yet that sells a denser foam like Gunold.
