Teddy Bear Patch cont.

Launched the teddy bear project yesterday, at last.  Each one takes 23 minutes to embroider!  Running the machine 10 hours a day, it will take 5 days to do all 150; that's if nothing goes wrong.  I launched a dozen last night and woke to exactly 1-1/2 patches done - the bobbin thread had broken on the second one.  Frustrating.

I've asked the client if I can reduce the number of pink dots; that seems to take the  most time.

And, after having ordered more thread, I just noticed that I am almost certainly going to run out of purple thread and possibly beige.  I could kick myself.  I hope I can go to Atlanta Thread & Supply and pick up more rather than waiting for them to mail it.

Projects are one damn thing after another...

Back to Work

Just back  yesterday from 2 weeks spent in Oberlin and Paris.

I should go away more often:  I had 4 sales while I was gone.  One was a sleeve that I had to embroider and send in time for it to arrive tomorrow.  Meaning that I spent $17 on postage for something that I collected $29 on.  But as it was one of the NGTC returns, I'm just happy to get it out of inventory.

Have a business card case to make, but the main activity this afternoon will be the mock-up passport cover for American University.  The logo embroidery looks good on the screen, but only a sew-out will tell if it's really ok or not.  I hope so, because although they were very nice about delaying the sample by 2 weeks - thanks to Qdigitizing not meeting their commitment - I don't want to to have to put them off any longer.

Speaking of Qdigitizing, this is the second time I've had issues with them from a timing standpoint.  I'm going to have to try someone else, next time.