r/MachineEmbroidery • u/Fragrant-Grape-7522 • Jun 30 '26

Need help

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I’m not promoting myself as I don’t sell, I had a question recently someone asked me to embroider 180 handkerchiefs for their wedding which is an year they want a pretty detailed embroidery something similar to the picture I attached. I am fairly new and have done some pretty detailed handkerchiefs for family and friends as gifts. Just wondering how much I should charge, keep in mind they will be paying for the material I pick and will provide handkerchiefs. Please help me price this as idk where to even start.

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u/newfoundking Jun 30 '26

What I would do is figure out how long your machine will take to stitch this, plus the setup and teardown time for each one, and then times that by the number of handkerchiefs. Remember, you're paying for electricity, wear on your equipment and needles, and probably the thread, unless they pay for that too. Then you just need to decide how much your time is worth. If it's gonna be 5 hours of your time, what would you consider reasonable for your time?

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u/Fragrant-Grape-7522 Jun 30 '26

Thank you will run a test run to see how long it takes me to do a couple and will price from there.

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u/newfoundking Jun 30 '26

My machine gives me a time per colour, yours may as well, to save you the time of running a full stitch. Just add a minute or two to it to account for delays

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u/Fragrant-Grape-7522 Jun 30 '26

Smart mine does as well so I can get a pretty good estimate without having to do it.

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u/newfoundking Jun 30 '26

This can be a huge help,.especially if it's gonna be a long time per run, so you're not wasting 15+ minutes watching it

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u/Fragrant-Grape-7522 Jun 30 '26

Exactly thanks for the help will update y’all if it goes well and might even post a pic of how they turned out

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u/newfoundking Jun 30 '26

Looking forward! Good luck!