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Old August 26th, 2016, 11:07 AM   #21 (permalink)
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plus minus is always possible in estimates
Yes, but we do take time to fill the stitches in the designs. We can also give quotes just by looking at the design base on our experience but it's best to give as close stitch count as possible as in the end, if design approves by their customer, you will get the order.
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Old August 27th, 2016, 05:31 PM   #22 (permalink)
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if its one that i'm not sure of just looking at, i'll do a quick mock-up. bring it in at actual size, throw down similar lettering, blocks of fills/satins, etc. it takes less than a minute to do and its pretty accurate.
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Old August 29th, 2016, 09:39 AM   #23 (permalink)
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if its one that i'm not sure of just looking at, i'll do a quick mock-up. bring it in at actual size, throw down similar lettering, blocks of fills/satins, etc. it takes less than a minute to do and its pretty accurate.
see I disagree with you on the doing a mock-up thing. To me it takes more time than just stitch counting in your head and coming up with an estimate that is within realistic plus or minus standards.

I dont like telling a client that we can throw a pretty accurate rendition up in less than a minute...(heck that is faster than Auto krap digitizing..lol) wont they then think... OH, then it takes you 20 minutes to "FIX" the minute design to make it production ready? (the part we are charging for) does this make sense?

I guess my issue is with the "less than a minute" part. To me that suggests that we should not be charging what we do, because how do we explain the time difference / design fee? I prefer to just count in my head.. 1000 stitches per sq inch of fill, 200 per inch of satin, 50 per inch of running... add in underlay , any blends, etc... now THAT within less than a minute I can quote.... and the skill of digitizing is kept in tact.
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it literally only takes me a minute to throw some stitches down. i'm not digitizing the design, i'm just throwing down a block of fill and approximately the same number of satins, and some lettering. i don't tell the customer i'm doing it, i just do it so that i know that i'm getting close.

is there an easy way to post a picture here? i can show you what i mean...
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lets see if this works...
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ok, so I looked at that art and saw within less than a minute... 22,000 stitches. full embroidery 3.5 inches wide. just by looking at it. your quote? is my size off?
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that is with the bottom banner solid embroidery
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3.5 wide sounds a little big to me, i had done it at 3" tall...and i didn't save it because it was a quote from a while ago, but i just did another quickie at 3.5" wide, with the banner filled and its coming up at 13618. want to try another one? here's one that i've actually done so we have a finished stitch count... this one is 9.5" tall, no fill behind the brewing lettering on the bottom. try this one:

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my quickie comes up as 106,388
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I have this one at 90,000 stitches. Bringing up another point.. send a design like this to 5 different digitizers and you will get back 5 different embroideries. I have satin border on the main lettering and lots of detail in the water and a rope effect for the posts.

None of the 5 would be wrong.. just different interpretations of the art. (unless the client specified their thoughts up front)
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