Answers / what we stitch
What can you embroider at an event?
Anything that hoops fast and stitches predictably in one pass. That rule produces a surprisingly generous menu — and a short list of polite refusals that protect your guests’ own garments.
The proven live menu
Caps: Richardson 112 truckers and unstructured dad caps are the workhorses — front monograms, back-arc names, undervisor surprises. Sweats: the Gildan 18500 hoodie and its crewneck sibling take left-chest monograms, cuff names and hood-side scripts; heavyweight fleece hides hoop marks completely. Totes: flat canvas panels are the fastest stitch of the night and the budget saver on big lists. Robes & beanies: chest monograms on robes own the hotel-party format; folded beanie cuffs stitch quickly and photograph adorably.
Tees stitch too — a Bella+Canvas 3001 handles a small left-chest script — but for tee-heavy events we usually recommend pairing the bar with live DTF printing, which suits big front graphics far better than thread does.
The steer-away list
- Guests’ own delicates: silk shirts, vintage jackets and waterproof shells behave unpredictably under a needle. We offer a pressed patch instead — reversible, zero risk.
- Photoreal artwork: thread renders gradients as banding. Fine-detail logos get simplified in digitizing, or routed to a patch or printed piece.
- Oversize placements: full-back designs run 20+ machine minutes each — wrong tool for a live line, right tool for a pre-event order we can deliver alongside the bar.
Building the actual menu for your event — how many garments, which colorways, what the card looks like — is covered in the garment menu guide. When the menu is set, pricing turns it into a package.