Embroidery Magic: This to That, part 1

Welcome to the first in our series, "This to That," in which we reveal how the magic of embroidery helps us turn . . . well, this to that. See, most customers give us images of their logo to digitize and embroider, but sometimes the process isn't that simple. Today, I present "The Case of the Flying Dutchman Racing Photograph," when our customer gave us this picture to digitize:



The Flying Dutchman logo is awesome, but as a photograph taken at an angle from a reflective car door, it's extremely difficult to translate into an image we can stitch! Further, we couldn't find that font, so we knew we had to build the letters from scratch. So, we scanned the photo and cropped the image into different pieces, manipulating each piece to make the letters uniform while staying true to the design. We maintained the symmetry of the text's arcs and simply recreated the "Est. 1992" with a comparable house font. Once the image was digitized and sewn out, here's the result:



The client was so pleased with the final product, they've recently inquired about jacket backs!

Coming soon to "This to That" -- What do a saguaro cactus and a snow-capped mountain have in common?