E-Catalog: New for Spring

It's Spring and fashion is in bloom.  Our friends at Tri-Mountain, and their Lilac Bloom division, have introduced 57 new styles for Spring 2012. You will not find a fresher, more fashionable, more relevant collection of brands and styles. In addition  to their brand new styles, they've expanded existing lines with new colors and sizes. So whether you're looking for something to freshen up your wardrobe or to outfit your employees in Summer work wear, this is the catalog to check out.  From dresswear to sportswear, and everything in between, Tri-Mountain is your resource for function and fashion.  Not only do they offer a full-line of performance wear, but they also feature an expansive selection of big and tall sizes.  Contact us today for more information or to place an order.

Featured Item: Soybean Cotton Jersey Polo

Did you know that it takes 300 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to make one cotton t-shirt?  Or that 4 million tons of textile waste or discarded every day - the average American alone throwing away approximately 68 pounds alone? These days there are surprisingly numerous - and fashionable - apparel options available to consumers wishing to make more environmentally conscious choices. Bags, shorts, blankets, jackets and more are available in a variety of fabrics which are designed to reduce your footprint.  We have access to organic cotton, recycled polyester, bamboo-based fabrics - even apparel and accessories made from recycled plastic bottles.

We love these Men's and Ladies' polos.  Not only are the comfortable and sharp looking, but they are made of a combination of cotton, spandex and azlon - a soybean-based protein used to make fabric.  Another upside?  Azlon has natural wicking properties, so you will stay cooler and drier in these shirts than your average cotton or poly polo.  To order these, or other earth-friendly apparel, contact us today.

What We've Been Working On: Rah Rah!

We've been busy bees this week.  first we tackled the throne cover project and then threw ourselves headlong into this cool triple applique project for a local high school's cheer leading squad.

We started with some die-cut shapes and letters made to resemble the lettering on the teams old uniforms.










We placed the bottom layer on the uniform and stitched it on along the outer edges.










We then added top embroidery to serve as a guideline for placing the next layer.

The middle layer is then lined up over the first...













and stitched along the edges.













An outline is then stitched on top as a guideline for letter placement and the letters are then carefully placed on top.







We then stitch around the edges of the letters












And with that we're ready to rock.  Go team!

What We've Been Up To: Dress Up Your Throne

Who doesn't need a throne?  Well, most of us probably get through life without one, I suppose.  But if you do happen to have one, shouldn't it be as regal as possible?  Otherwise, what's the point?  For the past few months, we've been working with the fine people at Samadhi Cushions in Vermont to embroider a very specific design for them onto silk shantung fabric which will be used as a throne cover.




First we spent weeks hand-digitizing the intricate designs they supplied us with.











Next we embroidered smaller elements of the overall design pieces of the overall design separately.



Then we had to place our mama- frame on our 4-head machine.  This frame, standing on end, is about 6 feet tall.  Needless to say, it is somewhat of a process getting it on and off our machine.






Some of the smaller pieces were then placed on the large fabric and appliqued on.
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 We then enhanced the designs with top embroidery

The final Throne back

The Throne front   ( final except for center embroidered panels to be attached by customer).  

We'd love to  thank Jeanette and Michael at Samadhi Cushions for the opportunity to stretch our creative muscles on this project aver the past several weeks.  It's been a challenge and a delight to create this for you.

From all of us to all of you...

Naughty or Nice Gift Ideas: Fleece Stadium Blanket

No matter where you live, there's no denying that winter is chilly.  What's the perfect thing to take off that chill? Why our delightfully cozy Fleece Stadium blanket.  Perfect for your sports fan friends, the cautious Mom on your list who likes to keep a blanket in the car "just in case," or you favorite homebody who just wants to snuggle up and watch TV on the weekends.   Make it a little more personal by embroidering a monogram or team name on it.  Order today and we will STILL GUARANTEE it for Christmas! How can you beat that?

Naughty or Nice Gift Ideas: Mens Soft Shell Jacket

For the good little boys on your list, we suggest this Port Authority Glacier Soft Shell Jacket.  One of our most popular jackets, the Glacier is constructed from a polyester stretch woven shell, which is then bonded to polyester microfleece with an added laminate film insert to repel water. The result is a wind-resistant, water-resistant jacket with four-way stretch that's perfect for corporate or weekend wear. It comes in sizes Extra Small through 4XL.  There's even still time to embroider that someone special's name or business logo on this jacket before Christmas!  Give us a call today and cross another gift off your list!

What we've been working on: Turtle Ridge

We've been having a blast lately working on piles and piles of colorful coats for the Turtle Ridge Foundation. Turtle Ridge seeks to provide a voice to people and organizations that empower individuals to solve difficult environmental protection issues and to offer the opportunity for young people to participate in a variety of sports and recreational activities that would not be available to them otherwise.  We love their logo - and their little turtles, too.  

What we've been working on this week: Irish Pirates!

We had the fun of digitizing this logo recently and got to embroider a whole slew of shirts for an upcoming Golf Tournament.  Watch our for those golfing Irish  Pirates!  They're tricksters!

What we've been working on this week: Crusaders!

Though we started Embroidery by Everything Personal in Manchester, NH some 17 years ago (and still make weekly trips down South to our loyal customers) for the past 10 years, we've been located in Littleton, NH.  Our owners grew up in Vermont's beautiful Northeast Kingdom and wanted to settle somewhere close by.  Littleton proved to be the perfect place, providing a centralized location and a positive atmosphere to expand and see the business prosper.  We love being active in the community and are a big supporter of our local schools and teams.  This week, we got to embroider our local Littleton Crusader on a student's duffle bag.  We always love to stitch the Crusader, so jaunty on his horse.  It fills us with town pride.  Let us embroider some school spirit for you!  Contact us today to discuss embroidering your school mascot on the item of your choice!

What we've been working on this week: Focus on Local

The Littleton Food Co-op Store opened in May, 2009, serving the North Country of New Hampshire and Northeast Kingdom of Vermont by providing a broad range of high quality food products.  Their members also help maintain the Co-op's mission of supporting local growers and producers, encouraging healthy life choices, and promoting environmental sustainability locally. We've been big supporters of their efforts, and have been pleased and proud to provide them with cloth bags for re-sale as well as helping outfit their staff in embroidered shirts.  We just completed a fresh batch this week and we can't wait to see them on everyone when we're at the Co-op picking out the freshest, local groceries.  Do you need your staff outfitted? Come on in or contact us for more information.

What we've been working on this week

We always enjoy our work.  Digitizing, embroidering, and designing feed our creative urges - but every once in a while we get to work on a project that's just so much fun!  This week, we've been working on some super cute burp cloths for a customer who's about to become a new Aunt.  We worked with her for well over an hour, choosing designs, colors, fonts and sayings - and now seeing these little guys all stitched is making us all giddy! Embroiderd burp cloths or cloth diapers are always a great, fun and memorable gift to give an expectant Mom.  Not only are they cute as can be, but they also can be so sweet and personal.  We're loaded with ideas over here, so why don't you come in and have us create a truly memorable gift for your next gift-giving occasion?  We can always use more "giddiness!"

What we've been working on this week

The Miss NH pageant program helps to empower young women in our state by awarding scholarship money to those competing for the title, demonstrating a level of excellence in scholastic achievement, performing arts, healthy living, leadership and community involvement. Recently, 63 different contestants shared in nearly $82,000.00 in scholarships granted at the local level. We were so pleased to be asked to digitize their brand new logo, in honor of their 65th anniversary, and embroider jackets for the women competing this past week.  The competition begins next week and we wish all the contestants much luck and success.

What we've been working on this week

Copper Cannon has the unique distinction of being one of the few summer camps in the country that provides a free camp experience to low income children. Last summer, over thirty children from the Littleton, Bethlehem, Franconia area had a chance spend a week at Copper Cannon Camp.  The 39th annual Copper Cannon Auction is fast approaching!  As one camper put it last year, "It is a chance for us to help Copper Cannon raise money for me to be able to go to camp". Volunteers are soliciting donations and additional volunteers to make the 2011 auction just as successful as the previous ones. We, at Embroidery by Everything Personal, were happy to help out by embroidering 7 donated pieces of apparel for the auction.  We hope to see you at the auction, March 4th at the Littleton Elks Lodge.  Doors open at 4pm, don't miss it!

What we've been working on this week

Our friends at Waterville Valley Ski Resort claim to have the Best BBQ in Snow Country and who are we to disagree?  In our books you can't go wrong with Ribs or beer, so we're always up for a trip!  We also love their adorable logo which we got to embroider and screen print on apparel for them this week. The original design has 6 colors and we love the way it pops on the black vests they chose to embroider it on.  


When you have such a large design, it would become very heavy to embroider it on something as thin as a T-  shirt, so screen printing becomes the natural alternative.  For the Screen printing, a 2-color design was chosen.  They went for black & Red on the grey shirts they had one, and a white and red design on the black shirts they had done.


Comparing and contrasting the style, look and effects of embroidery versus screen printing never gets old in our book and we love it when we get to do the same design both ways in one job.   The little piggy looks adorable in both and both make us want to go out and grab some buckets of bones and brews.  Hmmmm...It IS Friday, after all!

TGIF!

A Little Peak at What we Do

Welcome to our Blog!

It's a new year and there are lots of new things to report!  After spending the last 9 years in our Thayers Inn location in Littleton, NH, we packed up our machines and thread and spent New Years settling into our brand new location: 42 Cottage Street.   Our new location offers us nearly twice the amount of room (which we have already filled up!) and gives us terrific work flow.  Those of you who are familiar with our old location may also know that we had occasion to bump into one another from time to time.  No longer!  Our new space is bright and roomy and just waiting for you to come visit us!  We're so invigorated by our new digs that we are looking to refurbish our website and begin a whole new blog and email campaign to keep up with our customers.  So keep a look out for all sorts of changes coming your way and be sure to drop into our new store to say, "Hi!"