[amayausers] Re: hat logo minimum lettering?
- From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:28:13 -0500
Ron- sounds like you suggest to 'hand stitch' the letters like I mentioned?
Time consuming but would work-IF I can get a setup charge out of them.
Debating on just quoting them from one of my ad specialty suppliers-current
'sale' is $2.49 per hat, 8,000 stitches, minimum 100....($2.49 on a 'C'
discount-can't even buy the HAT for $1.50 blank!) and let THAT company
squirm over the digitizing!
Fortunately the meridian lines are only over the bottom half of the state
logo-letters go over the top half. No problem there...except this is the
state of New Hampshire-so the ENTIRE state is dead center over the center
seam of a 6 panel hat...not my better sewing results on those darn seams!
Roland
> if you are sewing a fill stitch and sewing small letters over it
> try using hand laid straight stitches,
> each part of the letter is just a jump stitch out and back
> and you can add MT because it is set up as a different color
> (or it should be). We haven't played with the 65/9 needle combo and the
> thinner thread combo yet but I am told it can be very effective also.
> I would slow the machine down also on the small type, as it seems to
> sew cleaner for us that way.
>
> on the meridian lines, I would try and use a running stitch
> instead of a satin so that you can sew the lettering over the top
> and get a cleaner outcome. Of course the customer will be
> the one to dictate how much change and adjustment
> will be allowed, but give 2 prices on set up and sewing.
> One for easy and less complicated and one for difficult and
> detailed. A lot of the times the prices makes their decision
> for them before you have to admit that doing such a logo
> would tax your abilities as an embroiderer.
> And if they do accept the higher price, then at least you
> get compensated better for the harder sew and more
> frequent stress and headaches.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Ron Vinyard
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 3:59 PM
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: hat logo minimum lettering?
>
>
>> Have a customer on the way here (long after hours but hey, have to do it
>> sometimes) and he wants his group logo on a hat. At 1.69 " high, the type
>> 'around the circle' is .11 (1/8" high) . Logo is a .18 wide 'circle' with
>> lettering inside that , 42 letters. Inside the whole circle is the state
>> outline with the 'globe meridian lines' on it, and then 5 letters .23 high,
>> 3 letters .125 high. I"m thinking this is way too small to even attempt on
>> anything, let along a hat?
>> My thought would be to suggest the state outline with lines, the 8 letters
>> over that (initials of the group) and a circle around it-then the full name
>> (42 letters) in a straight line under it.
>> Anyone had any success in lettering this small or should I use 'plan b' and
>> tell them it can't go that way?
>> Roland
>>
>
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