Yes, embroidery shops are abundant BUT I took a design to one and asked how
much it would cost to have it put on a hat was told $100!! (to get the
design into the computer). I think it would be more fun if we had a logo
contest and then had them mass produced.
Laurinda
Mountlake Terrace, WA
(just north of Seattle)
RindaA at worldnet.att.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Lydia Gaebe <lgaebe at email.msn.com>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:59 AM
Subject: Logos, Hats, Shirts and A GATHERING


> Tweets,
>
> Designing a logo is easy, as I designed a logo for a mug this summer! I
did
> it using Microsoft Publisher!
>
> I have a hat from a resort in the San Juan Islands called the "Lopez
> Islander" - a very simple embroidered sail boat logo on a light blue denim
> cap with a tan leather bill. It's a very classy looking baseball style
cap.
>
> Since computer embroidery shops are somewhat abundant these days, and we
are
> all computerized why don't we all rev up our individual creative juices
and
> design our OWN Tweeters logos! and take our logo designs to the embroidery
> shops and have them done that way. And we could put the logos on shirts,
> hats, packs, tattoos, mugs, etc..... I also know a place in Auburn that
> does small quantities of custom imprinted mugs.
>
> As to a Gathering, Yakathon (Tweet-A-Thon?). I like that idea. Back in
the
> pre-internet days my ex-husband and I had a BBS and we'd throw Sunday
Night
> Sanity Breaks at a local pizza parlor on a semi regular basis. It was
nice
> putting faces to the words on the CRTs.
>
> And if we do have a Gathering, we could all bring our logo creations and
> have a vote on the most creative!
>
> I figure as long as the logo has the word "TWEETERS" and a pic of a bird,
I
> think we should get creative. And if you don't feel up to it, team up with
> someone who does, and go into the project together.....Why settle for just
> one, when we can have many creations?
>
> I'm sticking my neck out.......Sometime this winter might be a good time
for
> a Tweet-A-Thon. I'll organize it.
>
>
>
> Lydia In Kent, WA
> Lydia Gaebe
> lgaebe at msn.com
>
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>
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