Crunch time doesn’t last forever. What could you do with your ‘down time’ to make your business more successful? At the end of the year, embroiderers and apparel decorators of all sorts are busily turning over production, fulfilling gift orders, personalizing everything that a needle will punch through or a print will stick to. In the . . . Read More
Aside from your willingness to work, there is nothing more important to your performance than focus. If I’ve learned one thing in talking shop with hundreds upon hundreds of apparel decorators, it’s that the largest hurdle they face usually isn’t a technical problem or a lack of skill. Even when they do have decorating techniques . . . Read More
It’s November, and there’s no time like the present to rev up your business for the gift-giving season! In this month’s Printwear Magazine, I’ve prepared a Seasonal Survival Guide to help you manage the incoming storm of embroidery orders while you maintain readiness for all of the wacky seasonal specialties your shop must decorate between . . . Read More
Quality embroidery digitizing is the backbone of great machine embroidery. It’s not surprising that a career digitizer like myself would champion well-made files as one of the most important parts of any embroidery job- as an in-house digitizer, it’s not an advertisement of my services that makes be believe so highly in the role of . . . Read More
In October’s Printwear Magazine, I wrote a piece about how one can manage machine embroidery on difficult bags. With bags, the more useful and feature rich the piece, the more difficult it can be to decorate. By their very nature, bags have a plethora of problems they can offer embroiderers, but by defining the most . . . Read More
