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New to the business a client asked about how to charge for digitizing. There are a couple of ways people address it depending on they way they want to run their business. One is to build it into your cost and figure if they order over a certain amount...

I think there are not many digitizers left that learned to punch (yes, it really means punching... holes in a card) the hard way. Before you could even start to punch, you needed to hand draw an amplification of your design. This was very tedious work...

I was there, I was at the Opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. I was amazed, awed and proud. I was surrounded by many different nationalities all gathered under a flag of peace for the honouring of the athletes. Yes the expense is ridiculous...

The count down is happening, 11 days to go before Opening Ceremonies. The crocuses are blooming and the daffodils are up 6” and in some areas they are blooming. It is the winter Olympics but it seems winter missed Vancouver this year. Last year...

So here is something else from the trade show. Leather can be a challenge. This thought was put forth by someone in a seminar. The reason a surgeon has so many scalpels is because a persons skin is very tough to cut and quickly dulls the blades, therefore...

End of the day of teaching and it was a great group. When I get together with a new group of people, the greatest thing is when the group starts to share info. The boundaries drop, the competition is replaced by a sense of community. I am at the Toronto...

When you are in a hurry and you find the right font and it sews wonderful, I love them. If I have multiple rows of lettering and it is a nice standard font, heaven! I probably have a half a dozen fonts I use regularly but I think because I am old school...

The OLD Once upon a time in the ‘good’ old days, when someone wanted embroidery, there were crests. The process : Crests used to mean embroideries were done on a cotton drill fabric. They needed to be a rounded shape and this was marked with...