This week’s embroidery tip is all about quoting a design for your customer while they wait! I wanted to repeat it on my blog because I feel that this is very important!

Do you ever have a customer that brings in designs that they want you to reproduce? Of course you do. Do they want a price while they wait? Sure they do. Have you ever wondered how to quote a price without having to go to your digitizer to find out how many stitches there would be in that design?

I have come up with a system that…. is simple and works great for me and has worked for the past 20 years.

I started creating my system by typing in letters at different sizes into my digitizing system to find out what the stitch count would be. Of course each style is a little bit different but for the most part it worked. I averaged out the different letters and here is my result.

1/4″ letter = 150 stitches
1/2″ letter = 250 stitches
3/4″ letter = 400 stitches
1″ letter = 600stitches
1 1/4″ letter = 800 stitches
These are the sizes that I have always used the most.

If you will add up all of the letters in the design by the size and multiply them by the number of stitches you will have the stitch count for the lettering.

Within the Business Basics Section of the Printable Instructions tab of my website http://www.EmbroideryTipsandMore.com/ you can find a “Custom Design or Logo Embroidery Grid” and instructions on to how to use the Grid. With this grid you can quote on all of your custom designs, including filled in areas and borders. This Grid is available to all Embroidery Tips and More Embroidery Club members. To find out how to become a member go to http://www.EmbroideryTipsandMore.com/.

You can download this Grid and print it out on a piece of vellum. Vellum is a sheet of clear plastic that I purchased from Kinkos. You can lay this clear plastic grid on top of your designs, count up your squares quickly and arrive at a stitch count with your customer standing right in front of you.

It makes life much easier, saves a lot of time and creates a happy customer. It usually results in you getting the job rather than the competition that has to wait for an answer from his digitizer.

I have also included a Design Stitch Count Calculator that will really speed up the process. This tool alone is worth the price of the Embroidery Club!!

Please respond in the comments section let me know if this tip has been helpful to you!

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