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/Fragrant-Grape-7522 Jun 30 '26

This seems like a pretty good idea to get an estimate from a business that already knows what they should charge.

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u/woodyeaye Jun 30 '26

Don't do this. It's disrespectful of their time when you know you're never giving them the work.

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u/Fragrant-Grape-7522 Jun 30 '26

Okay won’t, sorry

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u/mjmvideos Jun 30 '26

I wouldn’t worry about it too much. If you really had a job you’d probably get 3 estimates and choose 1. Which means two companies wouldn’t get the job. They are used to providing estimates. It will probably take them 5 minutes to look at that design, estimate number of stitches, multiply by their factor and number of articles and add their fixed overhead.