How to Customize a Baseball Jacket
Many baseball players wear team or individual jackets that display their team names and logos or their own personal player information. A baseball jacket can be customized easily to display a unique and personal design. Many online services offer jacket alteration that allows you to have complete control over the design of the jacket. You can also customize the jacket yourself by using items purchased from a local craft store.
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Instructions
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Personalizing Your Jacket
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Design your jacket on paper or mentally--think how you would like it to look. Pick out logos or lettering that you want to use on your jacket.
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Purchase iron on patches, lettering or logos from a craft store. You can also use embroidery kits to embroider your name or phrase of your choice onto the baseball jacket.
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Pre-heat an iron to the medium heat setting. Place the baseball jacket on an ironing board or a heat resistant counter top. Arrange the patches and lettering on the jacket in the design of your choice prior to ironing them on.
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Place a towel over the iron-on patches and use the pre-heated iron to iron the patches and lettering onto the jacket in the design of your choice.
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If using an embroidery kit, trace the lettering or logos onto the jacket in the areas that you want to embroider. Use the needle and thread color of your choice from the embroidery kit to stitch the design or logos that you choose. Read the directions from the embroidery kit to determine which type of stitching you want to use.
Personalize a Baseball Jacket Online
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Choose an online clothing alteration service. These websites have an image of a general outline of the item or items that you want to send in to them for customization. This interactive image allows you to place logos or lettering exactly where you want them to be placed on the actual clothing item that you send to them.
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Choose the colors and designs that you want for the jacket. Submit the specifications to the online customization service.
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Write down the reference number that the online customization service provides you and ship your jacket to the address provided with the reference number on the package. This allows the service to match the specifications that you submitted online with the jacket that you mail to them.
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Tips & Warnings
Be sure to use an old towel that you do not mind getting dirty when ironing on patches and lettering. Occasionally some of the coloring comes off of the iron on items and transfers onto the towel.
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- Photo Credit Varsity Sports Jacket image by Sirena Designs from Fotolia.com
