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Embroidered Fleece Hat

Embroidered Fleece Hat

Warm up with a cozy embroidered fleece hat! Colorful embroidery adds a unique style -- make one for yourself, your favorite little one, or a friend, too.

Supplies & Materials:

- 1/2 yard fleece

- Air-erase pen

- Medium-weight cutaway stabilizer

- Lightweight water-soluble stabilizer for topping

- Scotch tape

Download Project Pattern 


The designs used in this tutorial include:

Shabby Chic Butterfly (Whitework)

To get started, choose if you'd like to make the adult or child sized hat and print the PDF of the pattern pieces linked above. The adult size and the child size will print on two pieces of paper. The infant size will print on one piece

Two adult size paper pattern sections for a hat, labeled "Section 1" and "Section 2," held by hands above a black printer on a desk.

Cut out the pattern shapes.

Hands cutting paper pattern pieces labeled "Adult Size Section 1" and "Adult Size Section 2" with scissors on a wooden surface.

Tape the pattern pieces together (for the adult and child sizes).

Hands holding two white paper pattern pieces labeled "Adult Size Section 1" on a wooden surface. One piece shows partially visible text.

Next, lay the pattern piece on top of the fleece and pin it in place. Leave a couple of inches of excess around the pattern shape. Trace the shape and remove the pattern.

Person with a ring on left hand tracing a paper sewing pattern pinned on orange fabric, marking a line with a blue and white pen.

A template, or printout of a design, is an excellent tool to help with placement. Print a template of the design from your embroidery software. If you do not have embroidery software, Wilcom's TrueSizer is a free program to use. Position the design about 2" from the top of the shape. Mark the center point and the horizontal and vertical axis lines. 

Hands hold and trace a black and white butterfly design on a piece of paper over bright orange fleece fabric with marked points.

Hoop the fabric with one piece of cutaway stabilizer. Add one piece of lightweight water soluble stabilizer on top. This topping helps to prevent the stitches from sinking into the fabric. Hoop all three layers together. Align the marks on the hoop with the marks on the fabric.

Hands positioning a gray embroidery hoop over an orange fleece fabric with several purple alignment marks visible on the fabric.

Attach the hoop to the machine and load the design. Move the hoop so the needle is right over the center point. Embroider the design.

Close-up of an embroidery machine stitching a blue stylized bird design onto orange fabric held in a plastic hoop frame. The machine needle and metal parts are visible.

After the design has finished, trim away the excess stabilizer on the backside of the embroidery.

Hands cutting white fabric with scissors on an orange surface, with one hand holding the fabric and the other hand operating the scissors.

Then, cut out the shape.

Hands holding scissors cutting orange fleece fabric with a blue embroidered butterfly design on a wooden surface. One hand wears a silver ring.

Lay the embroidered piece on top of the fabric, right sides together. Pin in place, and cut around the shape of the embroidered piece.


Hands cutting orange fleece fabric pinned together for a hat, with a pinned paper pattern of a blue butterfly design on top.

Sew a 1/2" seam along the side and top edges starting and stopping 2" from the bottom edge.

Close-up of hands guiding orange fleece fabric with pinned edges under a sewing machine needle, stitching a seam on the fabric.

Turn the hat right side out.

Orange fleece hat with detailed blue embroidered butterfly near the edge, held by a hand over a wooden surface with part of a white object visible.

Align the open side edges together, and pin.

Close-up of a hand holding an orange fleece hat pinned with two sewing pins near a blue embroidered snowflake on a wooden surface.

Sew a 1/2" seam along the side edges.

Close-up of hands guiding orange fabric with butterfly embroidery under a sewing machine needle, stitching the design. The fabric is held taut near the embroidery.

Then, fold the bottom edge up about 2".

Orange fleece hat being held by two hands on a wooden surface. The hat features a detailed blue embroidered butterfly design on the front center.

These hats are a fun and fast way to add embroidery to your winter wardrobe. Great for the kids, too! 

Smiling woman with long blonde hair wears bright orange hat with dark blue butterfly embroidery on front, outdoors with blurred trees background.