The Evolution of an Embroidered Image

I've been working on the logo for the company my sister-in-law works for in Tracy.

All I had to work with was the image that we took a photo from off one of their trucks. It looks really cool, but since it was hand done, the L's were different sizes. And geeky me needs to have that all the same size, cause I just do. LOL

So, this was the first attempt I made at embroidering the logo using just the photo. I really didn't like the way the end "L" came out, and I didn't like the "inc"



So, I of course had to redraw the logo using AutoCAD. Yes, geek that I am. :) And after a couple of artwork changes to account for the stitching, I came up with this:
This is the computer generated stitching version. I had a font that looked really good to me on my computer, so I just used that.

And this is how it turned out on the shirt. Much better. :) The shirt was still a bit damp when I took the photo, cause I was so excited to see the final embroidery. It's the most stitches that I've done so far in an embroidered piece. The next one I'm doing will be more, definitely.

now onto working on that plus the softball stuff for this weekend.