Greetings! I'm a US based master puncher, started punching "Digitizing" long before embroidery computer software was even around and punched onto inch paper tape. Those days the only editing was to splice the tape or start over. Now I punch on Melco3, design shop and Wilcom and specialize in very small and I do mean very small lettering, high end logos as well as "art" designer embroidery. Most of my punching takes place on a large tablet and not on-screen as I’ve found the quality to be superior over “automatic vectorized digitizing”. I've judged the Stitches magazine Stitch-off, won numerous Stitches, EBN, and Impressions awards including a grand prize and produced 7 or so covers for industry trade magazines. I don't do commercial embroidery and am only an embroidery designer/puncher. The large customer I've digitized for the last 20 years sold out to a company who farms their digitizing out overseas and yes all my eggs were in one basket. Isn't it sad that for many companies the bottom line is only cost and not quality? The ironic thing about the lower cost digitizing is that many times a poorly digitized design isn't production worthy thus quality, thread breaks and what I'd consider to be a low end look really cost more in the end. Embroidery is my life and it's just so sad to see what's out there now days when it can be so much better. I’m now looking for a few good companies to punch for and would love hearing from you in the near future! Warmest Regards, Sarah "Straughn" Trimbath

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