I like to go above and beyond on projects, so when I needed aprons for a fictional coffee shop in a musical, I decided to design a logo and machine-embroider it onto some simple white aprons.
I used Hatch Embroidery's auto-digitize function to turn each of the shapes in the .svg file into a section of embroidery, changing the order in which they stitch and the fill types on some of the shapes.
Then I made a prototype with thread colors that were on hand.Â
I made mockups of some color options to show my director and technical director.
We decided on blue, since most of the coffee shop employees and patrons end up infected.
I bought some plain white aprons from Michaels and embroidered each one with the Beanie's logo.
I also embroidered Nora and Zoey's names onto their aprons, since Nora is the store manager and Zoey is a very dedicated employee who is also a manager of some sort.
I scrawled Emma's name onto her apron in Sharpie, because I (and the directors) thought it was in-character for her (Emma doesn't care about her job, she's just working to pay her way through community college. She also hates the new "song for a tip" policy that Nora has instituted.)
Plain apron with the embroidery hoop positioned for the Beanie's logo.
Mockup of Nora's name in Hatch.
Beanie's logo, mid-embroidery.