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?

Embroidery By Everything Personal Donates Over $500 to ASPNC

Embroidery By Everything Personal of Littleton completed their first “Partner of the Month” fundraiser with Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country (ASPNC).  The month long fundraiser was part of an on-going venture between the business and local non-profits where 10% of its profits for the month are donated to a local non-profit.  "We have always been big supporters of our community," commented owner Pat Beck.  "We appreciate having an opportunity to give back."

ASPNC was the first non-profit selected for the “Partner of the Month” program.  Headquartered in Franconia, the organization provides year-round opportunities in sports and recreation for persons with physical or developmental disabilities.  Currently it serves over 120 athletes from Northern Grafton, Carroll and Coos counties in New Hampshire, and Eastern Caledonia and Essex in Vermont. Participants are also welcome from other areas as well.  Their most recent event, Sunrise Ascent on Mount Washington, successfully involved over 100 volunteers taking four disabled participants to the summit of the mountain by pushing and pulling them in adaptive equipment specially designed for such a purpose.

Embroidery By Everything Personal owners, Pat and Andrew Beck, were thrilled to be able to donate a check for over $500 to ASPNC.  Sandy Olney, Executive Director of ASPNC accepted the donation stating, "Without the support of local business such as theirs, our operations would not be possible."

Located at 42 Cottage Street in Littleton, Embroidery By Everything Personal is open Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm, and Saturdays 10am-2pm through the holidays. For more information on ASPNC visit their website at www.adaptivesportspartners.org.

Embroidery By Everything Personal Names Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country as "PARTNER OF THE MONTH"

Embroidery By Everything Personal has named Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country (ASPNC) as our first "Partner of the Month."  The month long fundraiser will be part of an on-going venture  where 10% of  profits for the month will be donated to a different local non-profit.  "We have always been big supporters of our community," commented owner Pat Beck.  "Coming up with the idea was an easy one," she added. "It is our chance to give back."

For our first partnership, we decided to start with ASPNC.  Headquartered in Franconia, the organization provides year-round opportunities in sports and recreation for persons with physical or developmental disabilities.  Currently it serves over 120 athletes from Northern Grafton, Carroll and Coos counties in New Hampshire, and Eastern Caledonia and Essex in Vermont. Participants are also welcome from other areas as well.  Their most recent event, Sunrise Ascent on Mount Washington, successfully involved over 100 volunteers taking four disabled participants to the summit of the mountain by pushing and pulling them in adaptive equipment specially designed for such a purpose.

Sandy Olney, Executive Director of ASPNC is excited about the month-long partnership with Embroidery By Everything Personal.   "Without the support of local business such as theirs, our operations would not be possible." 

With every purchase made during the month of October, Embroidery By Everything Personal will donate 10% of the profits to ASPNC.  Included will be apparel, embroidery, screen printing and promotional items.  Located at 42 Cottage Street in Littleton, we are open Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm, and Saturdays by chance or appointment.

What we've been working on this week: See you at the Fair!

Late Summer is such a wonderful time of year!  Fresh corn is popping up at your local farm stands, evenings are starting to cool down nicely, and across the country, fairs are returning much to everyone's delight!  We have several fairs local to us in Littleton, New Hampshire, but no doubt one of our favorites is the Caledonia County Fair.  It's coming up right at the end of this month and once again, we were proud to donate a few embroidered sweatshirts to be raffled off for charity.  The designs hits all our favorite fair welemnts: rides, food, agriculture and fun!  We'd love to design some special embroidery for your event or organization!  Contact us today to see what we can do for you!

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: Give us a Smooch!

It's Summer and we're so excited that a new Smoothie shop is due to open right around the corner from us! What's more exciting, it's being opened by the owners of the fabulous Chang Thai cafe.  This new ice cream and Smoothie shop is "Smooch" and we can't think of a cuter name!  In addition to their adorable name, they also have a bright, fun, playful logo. When they approached us to outfit their crew with aprons and caps in time for their opening today, we were thrilled to help!  The caps embroidered beautifully, but because of the large background to their logo, we decided to appliqué the logo on the aprons.  To appliqué the  logo, we simply embroidered the text onto a piece of tackle twill and then stitched the tackle twill to the apron. This way you get a bright, clean finish - and dramatically cut down your stitch count.  We couldn't be happier with the way both the hats and aprons turned out - and we can't wait to be first in line to try one of what are sure to be Smooch's amazing smoothies!

What we've been working on this week

As a custom embroidery shop, we're happy to handle large orders for uniforming hotel employees, construction crews... you name it, but one of the things which makes us unique is we're also happy to accept one and two piece orders, enabling us to create truly fun and personal gifts for our customers to give.  This week we were asked to create hats for a couple who were celebrating their recent wedding. It was so much fun to design these with our customer!  Why not swing by our showroom and see what we can do for you?

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!"