From a night market stall in Thailand to your embroidery hoop
It started with a folding table on a night walking street in Northeast
Thailand.
I was selling embroidered patches I'd drawn myself small, slightly
odd little designs stitched onto denim jackets and canvas bags. People
liked them. What I didn't expect was how many of them would come back
and ask the same question:
"I have an embroidery machine at home. Could I just buy the design?"
For a long time I said no. Digitizing a design properly the kind that
actually stitches clean instead of puckering, breaking thread, or
turning into a dense brick is slow, unglamorous work. It's the part
nobody sees.
Eventually I realised that was exactly the point.
So here's what happens to every design in this shop:
I draw it first. By hand, on paper or on a tablet — never traced from
clipart, never pulled from a bundle someone else made. Then I digitize
it in Wilcom, setting the underlay, the pull compensation, the stitch
direction and the colour sequence by hand. Then I stitch it out on my
own machine and look at it under the light. If the satin edges wobble
or the fill looks tired, it goes back to the drawing board.
Only then does it become a file you can buy.
That's the whole promise. Not the biggest catalogue on Etsy just
designs that behave themselves when you press start.
I'm based in Northeast Thailand, I answer my own messages, and if
something doesn't work on your machine I genuinely want to know about
it. Send me a photo. We'll figure it out.
Thanks for being here.
Gam