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Is this design suitable for embroidery?

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Islandfever
Hi all -need some expert advice. Customer wants to take a graphic I did for him a while back and have it embroidered on ball caps. He took the original file I gave him to an embroidery shop and the stitch count was very high (design used to have an oak tree, marsh grass and a covey of quail in it) so he wanted me to strip it down to just water and the name. I have a fade around the 1st (at top) that he likes best and the second one has no fade. Is one better than the other for embroidery? Any suggestions for making it easier for the embroiderer?
Much thanks in advance!
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Islandfever
hmmm, looks like I didn't attach link to pic correctly.

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lizziemaxine
I think you could get something that kind-of, sort-of looks like that. But, I don't think you can replicate it in embroidery to look just like that.
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zoom_monster
That "B" would look very nice in embroidery. Think about designs that you've seen before... simple interpreted designs will always look better. Also, from the production standpoint, simple is better because it will alow you to do more designs per hour making you more money and giving your client a more affordable product. If this is exactly what they want, get it printed.
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Since it is embroidery I think either one will be fine ... but it will be fairly difficult to hold all the detail that is in the smaller letters - The smaller letters would sew out better if they were solid.

Also to make the background stand out from the words more I would have the design be two colors. In embroidery it doesn't matter as much about how many colors the design is. It is more important to keep the stitch count down ... less detail = less stitch count.
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swannn32 said:
Since it is embroidery I think either one will be fine ... but it will be fairly difficult to hold all the detail that is in the smaller letters - The smaller letters would sew out better if they were solid.

Also to make the background stand out from the words more I would have the design be two colors. In embroidery it doesn't matter as much about how many colors the design is. It is more important to keep the stitch count down ... less detail = less stitch count.
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I did end up making the smaller letters solid, just made sense to do it since it was going to be so small. Thanks for the input -I will suggest 2 colors when I hear back from the customer.
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