We had a nice experience meeting with a prospective customer recently. It is a sizeable company near Seattle with many employees and an existing relationship with another embroidery and screen printing shop. So we decided it would be worth the minor investment to digitize the company’s logo and stitch it out on some material that we could bring to the meeting. …
Embroidery Set-up Charge — What Is Being Purchased?
A customer seeking to purchase embroidered shirts, jackets, hats or other logo wear is likely to encounter the “set-up charge.” What is an embroidery set-up charge? The set-up process is a service that is a crucial part of delivering a final product that delights the customer. We wanted to take the opportunity here to write about what the client is buying and may expect …
S.O.S — Does Your Screen Printing Look Distressed?
Is a distressed look a good or a bad thing? The answer depends upon whether it was intended. A distressed look can mean poorly executed screen printing, as we described in an earlier blog post, Why Screen Printed Jerseys Peel and Flake. However, distressed by design is a whole different animal. We recently had a client ask us to make …
Why clients of graphic artists must consider non-white backgrounds in the logo design process.
About a year ago we provided embroidered polos to Five Minute Productions, a Metro Atlanta-based marketing, advertising, and graphic design firm. When this client recommended to one of his own clients that they work with us for embroidered shirts, we were delighted. The way we see it, when a marketing and graphic design firm likes our logo embroidery work and service well …
Custom Embroidered Pet Portrait Is a Full On Monet!
While embroidered corporate logo wear and promotional apparel is our bread and butter business, we occasionally get requests for more crafty projects. The project of the day was a pet portrait of a dog from Illinois named Oreo. The basic steps of the process of bringing Oreo to life on fabric are no different from how we take a company logo and bring …
Building a Relationship with Your Logo Wear Provider on Words Like “Cheap,” “Free,” and “Discount” — Really?
An embroidery shop near Seattle, like ours, or any other metropolitan city receives at least ten calls each week from vendors asking to do our digitizing work. A typical sales pitch offers “very low prices” and usually even a free first design to test the vendor out. It would be a tempting offer for many embroidery shops, who are often looking …
When Is Puff Embroidery Feasible?
Puff embroidery, also called 3D embroidery, is an effect achieved by placing a piece of foam on a garment as it is being embroidered. When everything is done correctly the foam remains expanded under the stitching, which creates a 3D, raised, or tactile effect to the embroidered design. This can really make the right kind of logo pop! That must make …
Jumping Embroidery Stitches in Seattle
The next time you are standing in line at your local coffee shop in Seattle, Scottsdale, Portland, or wherever you happen to live, sneak a glance at the embroidery of any of the folks standing with you. One of the ways you can tell how much that company’s embroidery vendor cared about how its clients’ staff looks is by how they …
I’m In Stitches Custom Embroidery Adds Eddie Bauer Label to Offerings
We were delighted when one of our suppliers began carrying the Eddie Bauer jackets, vests, and outerwear. Some clothing wholesale suppliers seem to be only concerned with offering something inexpensive. This results in poor quality control at the factory, which means that an embroidery shop like ours either has to risk disappointing a logo wear client with a …
Embroidery on Customer-Supplied Items – Why It Doesn’t Pay to Bend Rules
A Tacoma industrial company recently called us about embroidery and logo wear. They said they were unhappy with their current embroidery vendor and looking for a change. It seemed like an easy fit because they already had identified from their prior work a variety of clothing options that were available from our suppliers. When we visited to clarify things and …