Embroidery works best on stiff fabrics such as hats, jackets, towels, tablecloths, jeans, sturdy woven shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, hoodies, and many blankets. It can also work well on polo shirts, as long as the fabric is thick enough to support, using backing fabric to reinforce the embroidery’s foundation.

Embroidery is not a good option for thin fabrics or very stretchy fabrics. Thin and stretchy fabrics do not work well with embroidery backing material because you can see it through the fabric after the embroidery is completed. Without the backing material to stabilize the project, the embroidery stitches pull too tight and pucker the fabric. Instead of embroidering thin or stretchy fabrics, we recommend using heat transfer vinyl or screen printing to personalize them. The finished product will look cleaner and more professional.

Embroidery files cannot be resized as regular digital files can. They can get slightly smaller or slightly bigger without looking odd, but a much larger area to be embroidered will require more stitches than a smaller area. This means that if you need your logo embroidered in significantly different sizes, you will need to have it digitized more than once. The good news is that digitizing only needs to happen once per size that you would like your art embroidered. We can use the same files over and over again for future orders, as long as the logo or art to be embroidered stays the same size.