This was a very telling day. A friend had ask me to embroider two separate motifs onto two t-shirts. I have never worked with t-shirts, but now was as good a time as any to try it out. The motifs designs were chosen by the friend along with the size that they wanted of the finished product. I went into this with an open mind and a willing heart.
I have been in the sewing studio for seven hours and there is still 15,000 stitches to go on the last design. The grand total was close to 100,000. I don’t have any negative felling about this. There were times when the machine would be running the same color for 60 minutes or better. I decided that this would be a wonderful day to clean the entire basement. I could keep an ear out for the sewing machine’s need of a thread color change or if the bobbin needed refilling.
Tomorrow “Complete Basements” will be coming to do the annual check of our sump pump, and I know he appreciates as much room to work his magic as possible. Another good chance for cleaning and sorting and even pitching a bit. The annual visit is so important as the life time warranty is null and void if the annual visit is not honored. For as much rain as we have had and as much as the sump pump is still running, that is a gamble I am not willing to take.
In the meantime, I spent some time on my computer here in the sewing studio and am working out a price list for future embroidery requests if they happen to occur. I don’t anticipate that there would be a huge demand for one time designs, but today is proof that it does happen. There is the cost of the purchase of the design from online companies selections, and then from there it is costs per 10,000 stitches, cost of thread, prep of item, etc. I don’t plan on getting rich, but I don’t plan on always doing it for nothing. This was a day of food for thought. In the meantime, Dennis has supper covered, my basement is nice and clean and I will have a friend that will be happy. It will be interesting to see if there is an offering of any type of re-reimbursement. That’s okay, I’ll be ready next time.