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Thing one: I broke the part of my ipad that is called a "Digitizer." Cracked the glass part of the screen, pretty badly. I'm looking to buy a new part and install it myself.
This cracks me up (er, pun intended) because I myself am also a "Digitizer."
Sigh. It's the 21st century. We need a bigger variety of words to describe technology.
When I Digitize, I am taking an image and turning it into a stitch file to feed to my embroidery machine so that it can create an embroidered logo on fabric. Since an embroidery machine has no idea what to do with an image file, I have to take the image and usually trace over it to tell the machine what kind of stitches, and where to put them. I do this in layers, creating foundations for the top layer of stitches to create the right texture. This can be a simple process, or a complex one.
My current fee schedule is a baseline fee of $65 for a "basic" design. I won't bore you with the entire process, but the bare bones of it is that I work with my digitizing program on the computer to create the design. Then I have to stitch it out to make sure it works right. If I like the stitch-out, I then send the design to the customer, or I load it into the machine to create the project (if I'm the one doing the embroidery.) I usually get approval from the customer before I begin sewing. So this means a few hours worth of design work, a complete stitch-out (using my materials) and if the design does not pass muster on the first try, hours of tweaking and test stitching. That's why it's a minimum of $65 just to make a basic logo.
Few logos are basic. Many are fancy, or have shading. Some have lettering done in a custom font. Some, (God help us) have used a font like Papyrus or another font that looks awesome printed but is really stupid looking when stitched. Some logos have seemingly infinite details, or more than six colors. Some logos are huge, or ridiculously small. Once I see the logo I can give a better quote.
Why do I bother mentioning this?
I'm throwing a friends-and-family sale on digitizing. The Secret Word is "Jumping July, Batman!" My big embroidery machine has been sent in for its annual check-up and spa-day, and I want to do some digitizing while it is gone. Anything that is 4 inches by 4 inches or smaller, and less than six colors will have a baseline digitizing fee of $25 through July 25th. There are some restrictions, and I reserve the right to add additional fees for anything that presents unusual challenges.
You provide: A high-DPI image in the precise size that you want the final stitch-out. $25.00
I provide: A high-quality digitized embroidery design in any format that you choose.
If you want the item embroidered on something as well, that can also be arranged. (I still have the small embroidery machine. I can do anything small right now without a problem.)
Additional July Special: Pithy sayings! If the design you want is just a line of text, the set-up fee for friends and family is $10. Pithy text should be brief and to the point. Text should be English, but I am willing to consider other languages if they use the same letters as English. An example is the T-shirt I made for the Iron Man III premier: The front says, "NO, Mr. Stark" in red. The back says, "YES, Mr. Wayne" in blue. Other pithy sayings I have done in the past include: "SCIENCE!" "I Love My Creepy Doll" "Kitchen Witch" and "Nothin' says Lovin' like somethin' from the COVEN."
Consider that you might have a T-shirt printed with a character from a favorite show or movie. I could add snark to such a shirt. Something like this, perhaps?
This cracks me up (er, pun intended) because I myself am also a "Digitizer."
Sigh. It's the 21st century. We need a bigger variety of words to describe technology.
When I Digitize, I am taking an image and turning it into a stitch file to feed to my embroidery machine so that it can create an embroidered logo on fabric. Since an embroidery machine has no idea what to do with an image file, I have to take the image and usually trace over it to tell the machine what kind of stitches, and where to put them. I do this in layers, creating foundations for the top layer of stitches to create the right texture. This can be a simple process, or a complex one.
My current fee schedule is a baseline fee of $65 for a "basic" design. I won't bore you with the entire process, but the bare bones of it is that I work with my digitizing program on the computer to create the design. Then I have to stitch it out to make sure it works right. If I like the stitch-out, I then send the design to the customer, or I load it into the machine to create the project (if I'm the one doing the embroidery.) I usually get approval from the customer before I begin sewing. So this means a few hours worth of design work, a complete stitch-out (using my materials) and if the design does not pass muster on the first try, hours of tweaking and test stitching. That's why it's a minimum of $65 just to make a basic logo.
Few logos are basic. Many are fancy, or have shading. Some have lettering done in a custom font. Some, (God help us) have used a font like Papyrus or another font that looks awesome printed but is really stupid looking when stitched. Some logos have seemingly infinite details, or more than six colors. Some logos are huge, or ridiculously small. Once I see the logo I can give a better quote.
Why do I bother mentioning this?
I'm throwing a friends-and-family sale on digitizing. The Secret Word is "Jumping July, Batman!" My big embroidery machine has been sent in for its annual check-up and spa-day, and I want to do some digitizing while it is gone. Anything that is 4 inches by 4 inches or smaller, and less than six colors will have a baseline digitizing fee of $25 through July 25th. There are some restrictions, and I reserve the right to add additional fees for anything that presents unusual challenges.
You provide: A high-DPI image in the precise size that you want the final stitch-out. $25.00
I provide: A high-quality digitized embroidery design in any format that you choose.
If you want the item embroidered on something as well, that can also be arranged. (I still have the small embroidery machine. I can do anything small right now without a problem.)
Additional July Special: Pithy sayings! If the design you want is just a line of text, the set-up fee for friends and family is $10. Pithy text should be brief and to the point. Text should be English, but I am willing to consider other languages if they use the same letters as English. An example is the T-shirt I made for the Iron Man III premier: The front says, "NO, Mr. Stark" in red. The back says, "YES, Mr. Wayne" in blue. Other pithy sayings I have done in the past include: "SCIENCE!" "I Love My Creepy Doll" "Kitchen Witch" and "Nothin' says Lovin' like somethin' from the COVEN."
Consider that you might have a T-shirt printed with a character from a favorite show or movie. I could add snark to such a shirt. Something like this, perhaps?
