If you are excited about your new embroidery project, but don’t know where to start and feel overwhelmed, we are here to help. Let’s say you did your research and checked various embroidery providers. You stumbled at a REQUEST QUOTE button. Now what?

At Kate Elkind,  we simplified the process so that you can determine your project’s potential price yourself without asking for a quote.

Here is how it works. A price for a custom embroidery has two components – digitizing and embroidery itself. Embroidery digitizing is a process where an experienced professional converts your design into an embroidery file. Unfortunately, the conversion doesn’t happen at a click of a button. It involves a process of tracing each detail of your design manually and making sure that a sequence, thread angles, and types of stitches are set at their finest. The good news is that digitizing is done only once, and if your embroidery is a company logo, you don’t need to go through this process again. Once digitized, your design can be  embroidered infinite number of times.

When it comes to pricing digitizing of embroidery, there is no a cookie cutter method. Often companies ask to see the design first in order to give an objective estimate. Some companies determine price based on a number of stitches that will be going into the design. This method surely over simplifies pricing as it doesn’t capture the complexity. A square box can have the same stitch count as a complex design and surely cannot be priced the same.