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New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« on: December 21, 2011, 10:37:07 AM »
Hey guys, I just wanted to introduce myself.  My name is Joe Thompson, and I'm currently the marketing manager at Stitch Designers (hence the Joe@Stitch screen name, lol, clever, huh?).  We are a couple of weeks away from debuting our screen printing services, so I figured that I would join in order to glean some of your collective knowledge.

A little about us:
Family owned
Est. in 1985
300+ heads in house (soon to add 136 more-1st qtr '12)
Our production employees average 9.5 years of service WITH US
Contract only shop-we do not sell to the public
Main focus on the ASI community, but also sell to sporting good stores, support screen printers, large volume suppliers...etc.
We're the ONLY decorator nationally that can offer free inbound shipping from SanMar, Bodek & Rhodes and Broder/Alpha/NES!!
Located centrally in Louisville, KY-5 mins from the largest UPS hub in the nation
3 day standard production time (from the time that artwork is approved and goods are received)
Starting CONTRACT screen printing with 2 M&R auto's, Oyo Direct to Screen (Goblin), and Wilflex PMS matching ink mixer. 

I'll be happy to provide pricelists upon request, via email, but I will not post them for now.

Email is: joe at stitchdesigners dot com
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2011, 10:44:50 AM »
Welcome to the board Joe. You'll find a wealth of knowledge here and we can always use more embroiderers here.

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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2011, 11:16:05 AM »
Welcomr to the boards Joe!
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2011, 11:57:59 AM »
Welcome Joe

Emailed about prices yesterday ;D
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2011, 12:02:42 PM »
Yes Sir, got that first thing this AM.  Been "putting out fires" all day so far, but will respond here in a few.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, I trust everyone is having a solid holiday season business-wise?  I know we're swamped at the moment...Shew!

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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2011, 12:32:06 PM »
Not a Sir, Joe...just Johnny

Anytime is fine, it's for next year.

You should post some picts or vid of you Plant sometime.

We would all love to see an Embroidery Shop that size.

We have a 600 plus head closed to public shop here in town...WOW. No contract, they only do there own work.

And

Merry Christmas to you and yours. :-*

Johnny
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2011, 01:57:41 PM »


Here's one that I took recently.  It was in PrintWear Magazine on an article about our shop. 

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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2011, 02:55:39 PM »
Nice looking Shop. You have more thread on the walls than my suppliers  ;D
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2011, 04:09:13 PM »
I've snapped a couple of cool pictures of our thread wall.  Let me see if I can find them....







The Breeders' Cup hats were a fun project.  We had 4 days lead time to do 6,500 hats.  In lots of 50, personalized for each horse.  So, in reality, we had 130 jobs of 50 each, mostly the same but with different horse names.
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2011, 04:32:06 PM »
You have to love horse people. One of the things my wife and I specialize in is Horse Blankets. No where near the scale you're at thou.
Usually they are all different with different sponsors on each one. Every once in a while we'll get a bunch that are all the same. The last
batch of 25 we just finished were all exactly the same.

Love the thread wall pictures That's a lot of Madeira.

Nice job on the hats as well
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2011, 07:19:15 PM »
Welcome Joe. Glad to have another embroiderer here. Not that I don't like the screen printing people, but I feel kinda lonely .......  :p ;D ;D
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2011, 07:37:07 PM »
Holy shit thats a lot of thread :o
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2011, 07:44:21 PM »
nice shop, I agree, that is a lot of thread.
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2011, 09:23:47 AM »
I agree, it was the first thing I noticed when I came here to work.  The scale that we work on requires that we have a pretty exhaustive supply of threads.  When you have the same design on 40 heads at once, that's at least 80 cones of each color thread that you'd like to have (one on, one extra for each head)!  We calculated that in October, our machines stitched over 800,000,000 stitches, on 1,250 individual orders processed and shipped.  That was a heavy month, but the average is around 1,100 orders processed and shipped to 45-48 states every single month.

Thanks for the compliments guys, we've been blessed to be able to do some cool stuff.  Our owner, John Horne, founded the company with a 6 head Barudan that he financed, and has built it to where it is today through a lot of hard work.  I just tell people our story.
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Re: New guy here. Contract embroiderer (300 head shop) and starting screen printing
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2011, 10:14:15 AM »
I was in Antigua's embroidery shop a couple years back.....230 heads.....They stock over 6,000 colours of thread.....
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