If a woman embroidered for twenty-eight years from a selection of nineteen thousand designs, how many stitches would you guess she's done? Well, we don't know either but we're betting it's one heck of lot of stitches! Recently we visited with Marilyn Lint, owner of Wooster Embroidery Shop since 1975, and listened as she offered this description of her embroidery career;
I started my business back in 1975 when my family and I were boaters. We were down in Kentucky with the boat when we found this little shop where a lady was sewing jackets, so, we had her make four jackets for our family to wear on our boating excursions. As I watched her embroider on a manual sewing machine, I got so excited that I asked her if she would teach me how to embroider. She told me where to get the sewing machine I'd need and I hired her to come to Ohio and teach me to do hand embroidery.
I started the business right here in my home, and, as we grew, we decided to move to a commercial location out on Route 30 on Lincoln Way East. By 1997, the pace was getting a bit too hectic, so, I downsized the business and moved the company back into my home. A lot of people have lost us since we moved back home, but, I'm still in business, embroidering away. While we still have the manual machine that I started with in 1975 for customers who insist on manual, hand embroidering, we now have four computerized embroidery machines that embroider much faster.
Wooster Embroidery Shop specializes in embroidering company logos on shirts, jackets, umbrellas, and other assorted advertising items. For individuals, we embroider on just about anything you can imagine from polo shirts and jackets to blankets, sportswear, hats, towels, quilt squares, and we've even embroidered on leather, bird cage covers, and bras! We have nineteen thousand designs that our customers can choose from and we can produce custom designs. A lot of people will bring in just a scrap of paper and tell us that they want something similar to what they have drawn. We take their ideas, do the artwork for them, set it up on a digitized disk, and then it goes into our computerized embroidering machines.
We embroider on jackets, shirts, sweatshirts, hats, blankets, and towels that we supply, and, we embroider on items that customers bring in. A lot of people give embroidered shirts and jackets as gifts, and, this year, our fleece jackets and fleece blankets have been very popular. They're really inexpensive and make beautiful gifts.
In addition to embroidering, we also stay busy doing alterations and replacing zippers in coats and pants. A lot of our customers don't sew, and, since we have the machines and the talent, we help them with their sewing needs, too.
For corporate logos and gifts of distinction, it's hard to beat the look of fine embroidery and Marilyn Lint has the experience you're looking for. Call Wooster Embroidery Shop today and don't forget to tell them that The Advocate sent you!
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