Testimonials
from Embroidery Business Owners
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In
Stitches
Owner/Digitizer: Brenda Carr |
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| Brenda Carr has
been embroidering and digitizing designs for 10 years. In
Stitches produces both small and commercial embroidery jobs,
such as Combative sweatshirts for a special group in Germany, and
sweatshirts and long sleeve t-shirts for the USA Soaring team.
After noticing the HAPPY HCD embroidery machine sewing hats at a
model airplane contest, she and her husband decided to purchase
one. When asked why Brenda made HAPPY her choice, her reply
was: "The machine is all metal, very durable." Other
comments that Brenda made about HAPPY embroidery machines were:
"Dealing with HAPPY has been a wonderful experience. I've
had very few problems, and each time I have encountered a problem,
it was taken care of in a very timely manner. I was also
able to learn Stitch & Sew, the embroidery software very quickly.
It was very easy to learn. After lots of research, my
sister, who lives in Pennsylvania, decided to purchase a HAPPY
machine as well. We are very happy." |
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U-N-I
Specialties
Canyon Lake, Texas
Owner: Weldon "Buck"
Brewer
www.wearables.us
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Buck
Brewer has been embroidering since 1995, and started
serious production embroidery in 2001 with with the
purchase of his first HAPPY machines - a 4-head and
a 1-head. He has operated continuously since
then, with business quickly filling the
machines' capacity; later in 2001, he purchased
another 4-head to meet the additional
demand.
"I'm very happy with my HAPPYs,"
says Buck. "The Happy machines have been
a very good machine for us."
U-N-I specialties does a lot of work sewing on
finished caps, showcasing top-quality embroidered
designs of many varieties. With the HAPPY
machines' standard kit alone, U-N-I specialties is
able to produce volume embroidery on a wide variety
of wearables. |
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Designs Owner: Cathy Manning |
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Voyager, and has a very interesting story to tell. What
could have been a tragedy turned into an amazing story when her
machine was dropped to the floor, and recovered with no major
damage at all. Here is her story: |
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"A few months after I had purchased my HAPPY Voyager, we went to a
craft show and took the machine for personalizing items. My
husband was pushing the machine into the hall and didn't realize
someone had stretched electrical cords across the path. The
wheels on the cart hit the cord, and the machine went flying to
the floor, throwing thread cones all over. The plastic case
opened up, the thread holder broke, and I was beside myself.
We picked it up and moved down to our space. I cleared the
errors, used duct tape to hold the thread guide up, clicked the
case closed, and pressed start. It sewed! And it sewed
well. Nice job, HAPPY!" |
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-Cathy Manning, Owner of Dynamic Designs
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15313 Iris Lane
Dumfries, VA 22025
703-680-4219 |
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Garden of Daisies Owner: JoAnn Connolly |
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JoAnn
Connolly, a lifelong sewer, has taken embroidery business
Garden
of Daisies
to another level with her ongoing efforts in
creating Irish step dancing costumes. The dresses are
wonderfully intricate and beautifully designed, and grew originally
out of a challenge to provide costumes for her daughter's dance
school. JoAnn and her partner Sally Ellingsen have been at it
for 7 years now,
and her recent efforts won her the People's Choice Award at the 2006 NNEP
show in Nashville, Tennessee - part of the Stitches 2006
Stitch-off competition. Those who attended the NNEP show in
2006 were able to see the award-winning costume (pictured below) on
display at the Stitches booth. Her business has produced over
300 equally-intricate dresses in what she has come to call
"extreme sewing". JoAnn
makes extensive use of appliqué in her dress designs - something
handled easily and exactly with her two HAPPY HCA-1501 single-head
machines.
The staff at TEXMAC are proud of JoAnn and her partner's
achievement and the testament to the capabilities of HAPPY
embroidery machines that they have become! |
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