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recent PatchWorks designs

This is all available at the Patch Works.biz, along with nearly half of our design inventory. The rest will be loaded online as time permits. Click on any of these images to see them fully. Most of these are .jpg images created by the computer-aided-design (CAD) program that runs our embroidery machines. There is hand work that we do after the machines finish to cut threads, seal them and dress the patch edges. Thus what you see is not quite as clean as what you get. The CAD program also doesn’t have the same color backing as what we physically load into the sewing machine. In most cases it is quite close, but sometimes the reality is significantly better (to […]