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How to make a custom…
How custom things actually get made, what trips people up, and the shortcut: a site that makes it for you.
- How toHow to design an embroidered hat that actually stitchesThree things stop a hat design from stitching: letters that are too small, lines that are too thin, and too many colours. All three are easy to check before you order.
- How toHow to design a flagGood flags follow five old rules. Then there's the part nobody mentions: what happens to the edge that goes on the pole.
- How toHow much does embroidery digitizing cost?Before a machine can stitch your design, someone has to turn it into stitches. That step has a price, and it's charged per design, not per hat.
- How toHow to find the weather on a past dateThe night you were born, the night you met, the night the power went out. The weather that night is on record, usually to the hour.
- How toHow small can embroidered text be?Bigger than you'd guess. Three numbers decide it, and the font you pick decides which one bites.
- How toHow to knit your pet's face into a sweaterA real knitted sweater, made of yarn on a knitting machine. That means your pet gets turned into stitches, and stitches come in very few colours.
- How toHow to make a big head cutout from a photoThe giant cardboard head from the stands, made from whatever photo you've got, as a pillow, a sticker or a magnet.
- How toHow to make a custom embroidered patchA patch is a small hat front with a stitched rim around it. Design for the space inside the rim, simplify the drawing, and it'll come out sharp.
- How toHow to make a custom fanny pack with your inside jokeA joke only six people get, printed so loud that strangers ask about it.
- How toHow to make a jigsaw puzzle with a friend hidden in itA regular photo puzzle shows you the answer on the box. This one hides your friend in a crowd, so the table has something to hunt for.
- How toHow to make a custom shaped pillowA pillow cut and sewn along the outline of the thing itself, instead of a square with a picture on it. Most shapes work. A few never will.
- How toHow to make a custom text t-shirt that looks designedMost homemade text shirts look homemade for the same three reasons: too many words, one font at one size, and ink that disappears on the shirt.
- How toHow to make a custom tour shirt of your yearA band tour shirt lists the cities on the back. Yours lists the dentist, the move and the week the car died.
- How toHow to make a sweatshirt for a college that doesn't existThe campus bookstore crewneck never goes out of style. Yours can be from the University of Overthinking.
- How toHow to make a tapestry from your group chatThe Bayeux Tapestry is nearly 70 metres of people arguing, falling off horses and pointing at a comet. Your group chat has the same energy.
- How toHow to make a mountain range pillow of your viewDrop a pin where you stand and face the mountains. The top edge of the pillow is the ridge you'd actually see from there.
- How toHow to make a pillow of your houseOne photo of the front of the house becomes a drawing, and the drawing becomes a pillow shaped like the roofline.
- How toHow to make stickers or magnets from a text messageThe text that started it, cut out in the shape of its own bubble, with the read receipt hanging underneath.
