Back to School

For Lucy's Closet the back to school season is here! However, Lucy's Closet will also be closed for part of August for vacation. If you have a backpack or towel to embroider, please do not wait until August to get it to me. My schedule will be filling up fast and I don't want to have to turn people away. Here are a few pictures:

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Wow...is it July already?

I just realized I have not posted at all in July. Where does the time go? These two munchkins have been keeping me very busy and I have been loving every minute of it.

 Here are a few things I have been working on:

Hard to believe I am already working with corduroy again but the fall will be here before we know it.

I did not make these matching shorts. A customer brought them to me and I created the shirt to match.

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Just had to post!

 The great thing about making clothes for my nieces is that my sister gives me carte blanche to make almost anything I want for them. It really is my creative outlet to see if what is in my head will work once it is stitched out and sewn. I also love the extra cuteness of making twins outfits. I just had to post these shirts I did this morning because I LOVE THEM!!! I hope the girls do too. This monogram style is pretty popular these days and can be done on towels, dresses, tote bags and more. The large letter used for the last name is an applique and can be done using any fabric.

Also, for those of you who are regular customers...you might have noticed on appliqued t-shirts that there is a soft lining inside. It is called tender touch and it is there to protect your little ones skin from getting irritated when the shirt rubs against their skin. This is an iron on product and if it starts to peel off over time you can just run the iron over it (on wool setting) to reattach. A lot of times you will see this on children's pajamas or any of the appliqued clothes you see in Gymboree, Children's Place, etc. Sometime embroiderers do not use it but I think it is a nice extra touch.

Let's here it for Summer Vacation!

Now that we are a week into summer, I have finally found my "work groove" and my kids have finally found their "how to play with each other groove". I think somewhere over this school year they forgot how much fun it can be to play with each other. It took a few days for the squabbling to subside but now we are all in sync...I'm sure I just jinxed myself! I have shifted my work day to the early mornings, before they get up and that seems to be working out well. I am still taking a smaller number of orders through the summer and I am not taking any rush orders. Here are a few pictures from Lucy's Closet:

Oh - and I might not have another post until after July 4th so I hope everyone has a great holiday!

One more week...

...until SCHOOL IS OUT FOR SUMMER!! I am busy these days making anything and everything to do with summer. As you can tell by these pictures:

My turnaround time might be extending this summer since my first priority is spending my days with my children. If you think you will want back to school clothes, please plan way ahead.

Thank you to all my customers for shopping at Lucy's Closet and for being so loyal!

Why is embroidery so expensive?

I always used to wonder this when I would take my items to a store to have them monogrammed for my children - why is it so expensive to put 3 initials on an a-line dress or a towel? It seems like it should be pretty simple and cheap to put a name on something since it just uses a little bite of thread, right? I have always tried to keep this cost low but last September I had to increase my prices because I realized that I was basically working for free. For one towel to be embroidered, I use a variety of things. Each one being fairly expensive, especially thread. Here are a few things I use:

Spray adhesive, stabilizer, thread, solvy and tender touch (this is used on t-shirts so the inside of the shirt is not scratchy against your little ones skin)

There is also the time it takes to create the design in my embroidery software, hooping the item and putting it on the machine and stitching it out. All of this can take 15 min- 1 hour depending on the item. If I am doing a stack of towels, all with the same design, it might go faster once the design is created in my software. I do think my prices are quite a deal now that I am on the other side of embroidery and I know everything that goes into to putting a simple monogram on a piece of clothing. For my price list you can go here.

Here are a a few items from this week:

 

Thank you for shopping in Lucy's Closet!

Happy Memorial Day!