Everyone has different needs and that holds true with digitizing designs. When you consider embroidery digitizing for your family, let them help out and design the things they want because everyone will have something else in mind.
My first digitizing experience came in making hanker chiefs for my uncle. He was in the military and wanted basic army green hanker chiefs. I took a sheet, cut it into squares, sewed all the edges down and because I knew he wouldn’t like a design like a turtle, a Tweety Bird or the Tennessee Titans, I put his initials on with my embroidery digitizer. He was so shocked and touched by this sweet gesture. It was a very simple change, but for him what it meant was that when he was away in the reserves over the summer and had to do his laundry with everyone else’s he could easily find his hanker chiefs. I showed him how to make his initials into a design online and measure the size he wanted and he hasn’t run out of hanker chiefs since!
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