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Embroider Buddy
Introducing Embroider Buddy®! We make custom embroidery as easy as 1-2-3! I know the plush toy market well and I had never seen such a bear. On to the next idea!
Embroider Buddy was created by Donna Kotzer Jacobs and is the result of more than three years' development work. "For the last four years I have been exhibiting at the Imprint Sportswear Show in the US. I had developed a nice line of bearwear and bears that imprinters could purchase," Donna explains. "However, I noticed that the embroiderers wanted a bigger imprint area, so I started to research a bear that one could embroider directly on the skin. The embroiderers needed a bear like EB, and it took someone in the toy business to create him. I look at Embroider Buddy as a child created out of the union of the toy and embroidery business." "I spent three years working and re-working countless prototypes to perfect the design. At first I was going to have a removable paw. One would take off the paw and embroider it and then put it back on - mabe with heavy duty Velcro? However, someone questioned whether the design would be childproof; could a chld pull off the paw easily? That was to Velcro the back of the Buddy. Then I thought: why didn't I use an opening at the bottom of the bear so that you could embroider the back as well? I was not happy with the Velcro so I tried an invisible zipper. "The inside was also an issue. Speaking to embroiderers I sensed they were not too keen on having to stuff the bear with handfuls of loose stuffing. Also, if a child opened the bear up there would be a 'stuffing mess'. I decided to create a 'pillow pouch' in the shape of the bear's belly that can be removed and inserted easily." The finished design is incredibly simple to use: all the embroiderer has to do is unzip the invisible zipper in the EB's backside, remove the pillow pouch and slip the body over the machine's plate to begin the embroidery process; once the embroidery is completed, pop the pillow pouch back insde, zip up your EB, and you're done! Embroider Buddy is seamless front and back, so it can be easily embroidered on either or both sides.
11/03/2026
Unzip, hoop, stitch, zip it back up.
Pauley Pup has a seam down the middle of his belly, so centring the name is easy, and any regular hoop works because the panel lies completely flat.
Comment PAULEY and we’ll send you the full tutorial.
11/02/2026
They are not wrong.
Unzip the bottom, pull the stuffing pod out, lay the panel flat in the hoop. Stitch on the name, pop the pod back in. Less time than it takes to watch the next five reels you were about to scroll through.
Pick your buddy, link in bio.
10/31/2026
Happy Halloween.
Somewhere tonight there is a kid walking the whole street in a costume they picked out in August, carrying a plush that is not in costume at all and is coming anyway.
We hope the bag is full and the street is loud.
From all of us at Embroider Buddy®.
10/28/2026
The squishies are on sale, and this is the part where the good ones disappear.
Ducky, cat, hippo, octopus. Soft enough to sleep on, with the same flat panel for a name as the rest of the line. They are the easy gift to put away now and hand over in December.
The ones that go first are never the ones you expected.
Shop them now, link in bio.
10/27/2026
Elliot Elephant is soft, pale blue, and made to carry a name, a date, or a line that means something, a christening, a first Christmas, or the year a new little one arrived.
The belly panel holds it all.
The gifts they keep are the ones that remember exactly when it all began.
Elliot Elephant is in stock, panel blank and waiting. Link in bio.
10/23/2026
National Make a Dog’s Day is the one excuse a year to put a name on a puppy and call it work.
The new post rounds up the whole dog line: Buster Bulldog, Dalton, Toffee, Parker Pug, Hubert Hound and Pauley Puppy.
Every one of them opens with a hidden zipper at the bottom, so the stuffing pods come out, and the panel lies flat in the hoop. There are two how-to videos in there, and Pauley’s charms are free to download.
Read it here: https://embroiderbuddy.com/2026/10/22/embroiderable-dogs/
National Make a Dog’s Day - Find Your Perfect Embroiderable Dog - Embroider Buddy® Celebrating National Make A Dog's Day with a tribute to our adorable plush embroiderable dogs! Free downloadable charms and how-to video too.
10/21/2026
Sweatshirt fabric swallows thin lettering.
The fix is one setting. Go into the design and make the letters a little bolder before you stitch, and the name sits on top of the fleece instead of sinking into it. One piece of cutaway backing and a four inch hoop is all it takes.
The hoodie blanks come in a range of colours and two sizes, so the same design sells to every team in town.
Full tutorial on our YouTube channel. Retail partner registration is in our bio.
10/20/2026
Christmas lines start in October, not December.
This new post explains what actually sells: personalized bears, stockings ready for a name or monogram, and free Christmas charms you can download and stitch onto a Squishy Buddy for your samples. It also covers pairing a plush with socks so one sale is worth more.
Plan the collection, stitch the samples, and have them in front of customers before the rush starts.
Read it here: https://embroiderbuddy.com/2026/10/19/christmas-embroidery-businesses/
Get Your Embroidery Business Christmas-Ready with Personalized Gifts & Stocking Stuffers - Embroider Buddy® Get your embroidery business ready for Christmas with Embroider Buddy Squishy Buddies, FREE Christmas embroidery charms, and festive sock gift ideas. Start planning your holiday collection today!
10/19/2026
This stocking comes out every year.
Store bought ones get replaced. A stocking with a name stitched across it becomes the one that has to be hung, in the same spot, in the same order, every year.
The panel is blank and waiting. Shop the stocking, link in bio.
10/16/2026
70 days left until Christmas.
There is still enough time to choose a buddy and personalize it for that special someone in your life.
Order now to have it in time for the Holidays.
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