Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Just like Love, mittens come in pairs.

One of the most frequent experience that comes up when customers place an order is the understanding that mittens need to have two images embroidered on the tops, a right hand and the left hand.

So...if you have ordered 24 pairs of mittens you are embroidering 48 total pieces / images. I do have panel programs that I send the tops to you but I really like to keep the embroidery in-house to save you cost, time and the "sticker shock" when they go to your embroiderer and are presented with an invoice with 48 images at 8,000 stitches each (this translates into $16.00 per pair in the embroidery world!). Most customers send me their embroidery files and I download the file to the embroidery machine and save you considerable cost. In my next post....the language of embroidery: it's written in English but translated to "Klingon" I will explain all the files and their formats to you and how it relates to your total cost for the finished product.


The mittens in the top image are part of my holiday set and the coffee shop Sacred Grounds http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sacred-Grounds-Espresso-Cafe/197858453384in our town of Stacy has them hanging around the gift shop, they've been popular along with the Shamrock mittens made for St. Patty's Day.



Just a note: I have bags of colorful fleece scraps that are just dying for a good project, Any ideas out there? I have tied a bunch up to make creepy dog toys for Miss Mable she just loves them she can pull on them for a great workout.


I throw them into the wash when they get that reaaaalllyyy special Mable spit all over them so they are really low maintenance and easy to take care of.

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