Stitchline
We stitch a real sew-out on your own fabric and send you the stitch count in writing before the run starts, so the price cannot move afterwards.
Letters under 5 mm and hairline artwork will not survive a needle. We say so before you pay rather than after.
Who we work with
You approve a digital mockup that looks sharp on screen, but the final cap has blurred edges and missing dots. The needle cannot hold the detail you expected.
You order fifty shirts. The quote covers the first ten. The rest cost extra because the digitizer missed a complex curve. You pay the difference before the goods ship.
You receive a sample that feels stiff and scratchy against the skin. Your guests complain about the tag, but the invoice is already paid and the return window is closing.
You send a logo with hairline text. The embroidery shop stitches it anyway. You get a blob of thread where the letters should be, and you are told that is just how embroidery works.
Most shops quote a price based on a digital file. We stitch a physical sample on your exact fabric first. You see the thread tension and density before committing to the full run.
We send the exact stitch count in writing before production starts. This number locks your price. No hidden surcharges appear when the machine finishes the batch.
We tell you if your logo is too small for a needle. Letters under 5 mm often blur. We flag this before you pay, not after the goods arrive.
We digitize your artwork once. You pay a single fee for the file setup. If you reorder the same logo later, you skip the digitizing cost entirely.
You approve the stitch count in writing before the run starts. The price you see is the price you pay, with no surprise invoices later.
We stitch a real sample on your own fabric. You hold the physical proof of thread tension and logo placement before committing to the full order.
We tell you if letters are under 5 mm or artwork is hairline. You decide if the detail matters more than the cost, before you pay.
Your logo is digitized once. If you reorder the same design next season, you do not pay the digitizing fee again.
We handle runs from a dozen to a few hundred pieces. You get the same quality control on a small batch as on a large one.
Your logo stitched onto a cotton polo. The thread sits on the fabric surface, showing the weave of the cotton underneath at the edges.
A monogram on a terry cloth towel. The looped pile of the terry is visible around the stitched letters, showing the soft texture of the material.
A crest on a cotton cap front. The twill weave of the cap fabric is visible where the embroidery meets the edge, showing the sturdy structure of the material.
A logo on a denim jacket. The coarse weave of the denim is visible at the cut edge of the patch, showing the heavy weight of the fabric.
A monogram on a linen napkin. The natural slub of the linen is visible around the stitching, showing the irregular texture of the plant fiber.
a standard chest logo, and the number you are quoted on
from your approved sew-out to the first finished garment
on every machine, so extra thread colours cost you nothing
to reuse your logo file on every future order
Calculator
The same arithmetic an embroidery shop runs on your file. Move the sliders: the stitch count drives everything, and the rate falls as the run gets longer.
The rate per 1,000 stitches falls with the run: about $1.49 at one piece, about $0.55 at five hundred.
A left-chest logo is usually 3 to 4 inches wide. A cap front is capped at about 5 inches by the frame.
Height of the whole artwork, including any text under the mark.
A solid square inch is about 2,000 stitches, but almost no logo fills its own box. Text with a small mark sits near 45%; a solid crest near 90%.
Leave at zero if you send us your own garments. We stitch on customer-supplied items.
An estimate, not a quote. Stitch count is derived from the industry rule of about 2,000 stitches to a solid square inch, adjusted by the fill share you set; your actual file may run 20 to 40 percent under a full box. Rates follow published United States quantity tiers of $1.50 down to $0.50 per 1,000 stitches. Digitizing is charged once at $65 and never again for the same logo. We confirm the real stitch count from your file, in writing, before anything is stitched.
Customers say
They sent the sew-out on our own fabric first. The green in the leaf was wrong on screen and right on cotton, and they caught it, not us
Reordered twice, same file, no setup fee
Our old supplier quoted per item and then found extra stitches. Stitchline named 9 900 stitches in writing and that was the price
Cost came in 11 percent under the quote we had
The back logo was too fine at first. They told us which lines would fill in and redrew them before stitching anything
No rejects out of 48
A hotel in Lyon ordered 40 robes. We stitched the crest on their own cotton before the run. The stitch count stayed fixed at 12,000.
A coffee shop in Portland needed 25 aprons. We flagged that their logo had 4 mm letters. You approved the simplified version before paying.
A startup in Berlin ordered 150 polos. We sent a physical sew-out on your fabric. You checked the thread tension and approved the run.
A restaurant in Amsterdam ordered 60 napkins. We digitized their crest once. The price per napkin did not change after the first sample.
| What we compare | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Physical sample | You receive a physical sample stitched on your exact fabric before the full run begins. This confirms the thread color and stitch density match your expectations. |
| Fixed price | The stitch count is sent to you in writing before production starts. This locks the price so it does not change after the run begins. |
| Detail limits | We tell you if letters are under 5 mm or artwork is hairline. You know what will survive the needle before you pay. |
| One-time digitizing | You pay a one-time fee for digitizing your logo. You do not pay again for the same design on future orders. |
Pricing
any artwork we have not stitched before
24 polos or tees, standard left chest
24 towels, robes or napkins
Both run prices are the calculator above, at 24 pieces and the stitch counts named. Longer runs cost less per piece: the same chest logo is $5.98 at 48 garments and $4.44 at 250. Setup is charged once per logo, not once per order.
If a finished piece does not match the sew-out you approved, we restitch it on a new blank at our cost, and we pay for the blank as well.
Questions
Yes. Send them and we stitch on them. If a piece is damaged in hooping through our fault, we replace it.
About 5 mm tall for clean satin letters. Below that the stitches crowd and the counters fill in. We will tell you before you pay, not after.
Anything sharp: vector is ideal, a large PNG works. We digitise it into a stitch file ourselves, once, for $65.
Because the machine charges you in needle time. A solid square inch is roughly 2 000 stitches, so a dense crest costs more than an outline of the same size.
No minimum. One piece is welcome, it simply carries the highest per-piece rate, as the calculator shows.
We stitch a real sew-out on your own fabric and send you the stitch count in writing before the run starts, so the price cannot move afterwards.
Get my stitch count and priceLetters under 5 mm and hairline artwork will not survive a needle. We say so before you pay rather than after.
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