Artists: It’s Time to Add Embroidery to Your Bag of Tricks - Sara "The Kerrminator" Kerr is Back on Board With the Embroidery Team at Crooked Brook
Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) July 20, 2013 -- After a brief break, Sara "The Kerrminator" Kerr, an Artist, Designer & Illustrator based in Portland, Oregon has rejoined the embroidery team at Crooked Brook. On the appropriately named The Kerrminator's Blog, Sara says that more artists should add embroidery to their repertoire.
“Time and time again I see companies requesting to have their logo embroidered on products, on thin fabrics, or overly-complicated designs crammed into tiny areas.” said Sara “ If a little fore-thought was put into designing for both print and embroidery a lot of time explaining and re-designing could be saved. It’s possible these artists just want to make the company ask for a redesign later once they realize it needs modification in order to make a buck, but I’d like to think they’re not that shiesty.”
“Sara is a very talented artist and one of our top embroidery digitizers,” said Donna Jones, senior design assistant at Crooked Brook, “We are grateful to have her as a member of our team.”
Read the full article here: http://thekerrminator.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/attn-artists-its-time-to-add-embroidery-to-your-bag-of-tricks/
About Sara Kerr
Sara Kerr aka "The Kerrminator" is an Artist, Designer & Illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. She is available for commissioned drawings, paintings, custom matting, hand crafted wood frames, logo design, graphic illustration, book illustration, and fashion illustration just to name a few of her specialties.
About Embroidery
Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often recommended for caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.
A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work—chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
Machine embroidery, arising in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, mimics hand embroidery, especially in the use of chain stitches, but the "satin stitch" and hemming stitches of machine work rely on the use of multiple threads and resemble hand work in their appearance, not their construction.
Embroidery digitizing, is the art of using a computer to convert artwork into data that is recognizable by an embroidery machine so the machine knows how to stitch out the design. One click on the computer does not automatically convert the design. The artist redraws the design in such a way that the embroidery machine knows what to do; from the size of the design, to underlays, type of stitch, color changes, and the order in which this all takes place. Very similar to an architectural blueprint that tells the builder what to do.
Not all embroidery digitizing is created equal. It takes years of experience to do quality digitizing.
About Crooked Brook
Crooked Brook is a unit of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production, direct-to garment printing and embroidery. Since 1989, they’ve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.
In addition, Crooked Brook offers promotional products, items, decorated apparel and accessories such as; jackets, fleece jackets, hats, shirts, polo shirts, golf shirts, fleece blankets, sweatshirt blankets, hoodies, sweatshirts, tote bags and aprons that can be customized with the following apparel decorating methods:
Embroidery
Tackle Twill
Appliqué
Direct to Garment Printing (DTG)
Sublimation
Crooked Brook ships worldwide. Hours of operations are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST, seven days a week. Reach them at (315) 733-1992 to learn more.
Linda Thompson, Crooked Brook, http://www.crookedbrook.com/, 212-249-1064, [email protected]
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