Custom Embroidery For Your Corporation

By David Faulkner

If you are part of a company or organization that is looking for ways to stand above the competition, then you should definitely try custom embroidery. If you choose an eye-catching design, custom embroidery on your company shirts or jackets can even be a great way to advertise your organization.

When you already have a design in mind, the next thing you need to do is locate a shop that would do the custom embroidery for you. This will not be too difficult as there are several seamstresses out there that are capable of doing this job.

If you can't find someone in your area to do your custom embroidery for you, just go online and you will surely find someone that can create the custom embroidery that you want.

You don't have to limit your search to nearby areas. Custom embroidery shops from several states away will gladly take your order and have the products delivered to you in no time at all.

A great thing about searching for a custom embroidery shop online is that you can go to several sites to compare their prices. Most sites also display images of their finished products so that you can gauge their efficiency for yourself.

To help you in your search, we have listed down the sites that we think offer the best custom embroidery services online. You can start by visiting any of these sites:

1. Threadlove.com
This company can do high quality custom embroidery for practically any purpose you want. Whether you want to have custom embroidery on your sports uniforms or for a corporate giveaway item, threadlove.com can do the job for you.

What's great about this site is that they do not require any minimum order. Even if you just want one or two items for your personal use, they will do the custom embroidery for you.

2. CustomLogoFactory.com
This website uses the most technologically advanced custom embroidery machines to create their products. This ensures that their designs are really consistent because they are digitally done. Their services are very reasonably priced, and the quality of the product is very good.

3. EmbroideryAuthority.com
This is a very popular custom embroidery website. It has been around for quite a while and has acquired a very good reputation among its many customers. They allow the client to choose from several available colors and designs.

Many of their clients swear by the high quality of their products and excellent customer relations. In fact, they have many customers that regularly go back to them year after year for new orders.

These are only a few of our favorite custom embroidery websites. If you want to see more, just go online and start searching. You will surely find a great custom embroidery shop that will fit your needs.

You can also find more info on basic embroidery and design software. Allthingsembroidery.com is a comprehensive resource to know more about Embroidery.

How To Place An Embroidery Order

By Matthew Hurst

How do I place an order for embroidered goods? Seems like a simple question, but with words like digitizing, conversion software, custom logos, typeset logos & stock designs it can be a bit confusing. Hopefully after reading this article you will fully understand how this process works.

The first thing anyone should do is secure their logo and or design. This could mean many things. Do you have a company logo? If so is it in vector format? Is it on a business card or a website? As discussed in a previous article vector is by far the best format. But, if you only have a bitmap image this will work as well, provided a couple of things are adhered to. If your logo is on a business card or a website try to provide as large of an image as possible. This image will have to be remade to work with the digitizing software. Also try to provide the best quality image as possible. If you already have your art work digitized then that will save you a step, but has this artwork been tested with a sample and sew out? Many digitizers do things differently so it is our suggestion that you get your digitizing done at the same place you get your embroidery done. This will ensure a great finished product without any complications. The third option here is to use a "stock design". This does not mean any old image you find on the Internet or clip art found in many pieces of software available for web design or print work. Stock designs like the ones from http://www.dakotacollectibles.com/ are made with embroidery in mind. These designs are pretested and sewn out to ensure their compatibility with digitizing software and embroidery machines.

With any of the three options above it is essential that we understand the differences in print work and embroidery work. Artwork that is to complicated or with small lettering will simply not turn out well in an embroidery design. This should be thought of when working with a logo anyways. I firmly believe in the K.I.S.S. method, keep it simple stupid. What you are trying to accomplish is logo recognition. You really don't need to have all the information about your company within a logo. When you see the McDonald's arches do you need to be told within the logo that its McDonald's logo? Of course not. This is advertising in one of it's simplest forms, logo recognition. So keep your logo as simple as possible, as it will be small on a shirt or hat and will be hard to read at a glance. Also text that is smaller then 1/4 inch in height will not look good at all in your finished product. Bottom line is artwork that may look good on a computer screen may not look as good in the sewn format. So think about this as you are designing your logo.

The second step is to determine what type of apparel this embroidery work will be applied to.
This in my opinion is just as important as determining your logo. By selecting your apparel and logo you will be starting your corporate identity, so it is of the utmost importance to begin this on the right foot. First question to ask is what type of business am I running? This will determine what type of apparel your employees will be wearing to show off your new logo.

Colors are also of great importance. I cannot say how many times I have seen a great logo that turned out horrible because of the color or style of apparel it was embroidered on. Thats right its time to get the old color wheel out. Remember this from grade school? We have contrasting colors, complimenting colors and one of the newest trends tone on tone. Of course there are many other design possibilities in fact to many to mention in this article. Tone on tone seems to be very popular for a subtle corporate look. This style is done with a solid color shirt or other apparel with the logo being the same color with a slightly different tint. This may seem like it would not show up very well. In all reality the slightest difference in the colors can make the logo stand out. This will provide a very professional look.

Ok so now we have our apparel and our logo. The next step will be taking your logo and your apparel to your embroiderer (eg Contract Embroidery by Nu Emage). Depending on who you are using these two steps may be intertwined within the process.

The next big step is to get a sample sew out if this is a first time logo. Most all embroiderers will provide a sample to cover themselves as well as the customer. This sample can be done on a scrap piece of material or on an actual piece of apparel. If this will be done on the actual apparel please remember to provide one extra for this purpose (if you are buying your apparel though the embroiderer then please let them know that you will need a sew out sample. They will more then likely cover the cost of this). There will more then likely be many sew outs while the digitizer is attempting to make your logo work. The final one will be the one needed to be approved.

Once your sew out is approved the job can begin production. Production can take days to weeks depending on the size of the order and the complexity of the logo. Please allow adequate time to allow for a quality product.

And that's it! This is not a simple process but that if professionally handled can be as painless as possible.

Contract Embroidery in the Atlanta, Ga area

Matt from Nu Emage Embroidery

Using Your Embroidery Skills for Charity

By Hayi Mansoor

Embroidering by hand is a skill that in many cases is passed from generation to generation and the articles produced for it are used as heirlooms, as gifts and as articles to be cherished for many years. We use them in our homes, in our every day lives, to decorate toys and make our clothing more attractive. Most of us don’t think about using them to raise funds for charity, or, as a charitable donation in and of themselves. Embroidered items, with intricate embroidery designs and lovely embroidered patterns can be used in places such as hospitals, sales to benefit homeless or indigent, or as gifts to be sent to premature babies or older members of the community who are in nursing homes or hospice treatment centers.

Many hospices have elderly individuals who , due to their treatments, blood flow problems or medications are frequently cold. Taking a small amount of fleece, about a yard, and then embellishing it with a particularly bright embroidery design, of say floral embroidery patterns for a woman or a mallard duck embroidery pattern for a man would make an admirable lap robe with which to keep warm when the evenings seem chilly to them. Using our imagination we can find a way to turn our hobby into a creative source of income for our favorite charity such as a sale of smaller items for aiding a favorite charity, or to provide for the local animal shelter. If we choose to do so, our items can be a means to support our favorite charity or failing that,. To turn the items we produce into items that can be used by childrens hospitals or nursing homes.

Think of all the items that your embroidery patterns can adorn. Don’t you know of a nursing home in your area.? Have you visited it lately.

Many of our elderly are living there, with minimal visitors and very little in the way of discussion or sensory stimulation. Very often the women, and sometimes the men are embroiderers from years past and will be able to help us with our designs or embroidery stitching.

To embroider a wall picture with bright spring flowers may just draw out the elderly woman who has little to say or discuss with anyone around her. It may be that she has nothing new to talk about.

A discussion of the embroidery patterns, or a new embroidery design as you present her with your picture may just be the therapy that she needs to begin to feel as though she is still a useful member of society.

Drawing out people using the skills and talents that we learn while making that new embroidery stitch is particularly satisfying in that we may learn something new in the process. There are many ways in which our talents and our favorite embroidery patterns can become something special to someone else besides us, and that is a way to use the skill that will provide a great deal of extra pleasure.

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