Embroidery We Have Stitched

Twenty-four jobs

Twenty-four jobs, every one of them a piece somebody paid for and took home. Stephanie photographs them on her phone as they leave the shop, which is why they are shot on a workbench, a brick wall or a shelf rather than on a model.

The caps

The caps are the bulk of it, and they are not one kind of cap. There is a cream cap carrying block and script lettering across the crown with a leopard-print brim under it, and a camo cap set in lower-case letters that reads quietly on purpose. Route 66 turns up twice, once as the highway shield alone and once with the town name stitched under it. Three matching caps in one frame are a small run rather than a one-off: the same wordmark, stitched three times, from one digitized file, which is the job embroidery is best at.

Who these were made for

The bags are mostly school. A backpack with a name and a mascot, a backpack with an initial and a character, a matching backpack-and-lunch-box set carrying a single letter on each. Those are the jobs that come in a fortnight before term starts and have to be right, because a seven-year-old will notice if the letter is not the one they asked for. The totes are the other half - a two-letter monogram, a script line, pink lettering on animal print, a canvas tote with pink trim. Bags get dragged around and do not get babied, which is exactly why thread is the right thing to put on them.

Some pieces here are garments customers already owned and brought in. The blanket in the last band is somebody's blanket with a name on it now.

Where these were made

Everything on this page was made in the shop in Yukon, Oklahoma, inside the Oklahoma City metro, and photographed there by Stephanie on her phone as it went out. Twenty-four pieces are shown: fourteen caps, nine bags and totes, and one blanket. More lands here as she shoots it, so the count moves. Every job here is quoted on its own rather than priced off a rate card, and the mock is approved before anything is sewn. Bringing in a piece you already own is a normal way to start rather than an exception to one, and plenty of jobs start as a photograph of a piece somebody already owns.

If you want to know what the method actually involves before you commit to anything, that is on the embroidery service page: what digitizing is, what survives being sewn at cap size, and what to send.