Miscellaneous Stuff

Embroiderey Pattern

We decided to make a few "Mercy's Garage" jackets with embroidered logos, and they came out beautifully. Unfortunately, they end up costing us about $150.00 each to produce, which makes them too expensive to produce and stock. Since we've had a couple of people ask about them, we've decided to make the embroidery pattern available for download. The pattern is a DST file, which is a widely-used format used by embroidery shops. This design is just over ten inches across, and has about 123,00 stitches, so it requires a fairly stiff shirt or light jacket. It can apparently be re-sized fairly easily by better embroidery stores if you'd like something a bit smaller.

The embroidery file is here: mercy.dst

Apparently the DST format encodes dimension, stitch direction, and everything that's needed to produce the image, except color. When the image is trasferred onto a new system, random colors will be assigned, which can look pretty startling. The good news is that the embroidery shop just needs to put the correct color of thread for each area. Here's a small JPG that you can use to make sure they get the colors right!