 A way to thank Ya'll
Besides cooking and baking, I also sew. As part of my sewing habit not only do I have several hundred yards of fabric horded in my sewing room just waiting for inspiration to strike, I have an embroidery machine and digitize my own designs.
Most of my friends have monogrammed everything from me (towels, throws, shirts, etc.) and I love to put my embroidery designs on the clothes I make for myself and the kids.
I have worked with several restaurants doing pastry and desserts in the past, and I usually digitize (turn a .jpeg or.tif or whatever into stitches for an embroidery machine) their logos to go on chef’s jackets, golf shirts for employees and aprons for bus boys (or is that bus persons?). I even made a custom tote bag for an owner to thank her for her business.
I have a Brother embroidery machine and my digitizing software is Brother as well so I can only create what is called a .pes file that is read by Brother and Babylock machines. My machine is the smallest embroidery area there is (it can only stitch a design that is 4 inches by 4 inches) but many home sewers have the 5x7 inch models and I dream of having the Brother PR600 that has an 8x10 inch embroidery area. (Most monogram shops that do purses and baby clothes have this or the Babylock version), it can do ball caps and everything. Its $10,000 and up price tag is what is holding me back.
Since I’m one of those goody two shoes folks who likes to do nice things for people, even if I don’t know them face to face, would anybody be interested in me digitizing a logo for them? Absolutely no charge at all. It can all be done through e-mail. You send me an image file, I send you the embroidery file.
The useful purpose of this is that it can cost between $50-100 to start to have someone digitize your logo, and sometimes the person who does it won’t actually give you the file so you are stuck with using them to have your embroidery done. The catch is that you either have to find someone with a Brother or Babylock machine or someone who has the program that converts any embroidery file into another type of embroidery file (there are many .hus, .sew, .xxx, you get the idea) to go with their machine.
Yet again I would like to state that I would do this on a strictly volunteer basis. I am so not looking to strum up business.
I learn a lot here. Between those who answer questions and those who ask questions I might not have thought of, I consider this forum a valuable resource and wanted to do something nice to give back. Some of you are food industry owners. I am sure that some of you own businesses that aren’t food related and I would gladly digitize a design for you as well.
Do I need to say first come, first serve?  | 
