Having teased you all for quite a while now, we are very excited to share our new Dachshund Reusable Christmas Crackers. Designed especially for the lovely Selina, founder of the Devoted to Dachshunds website (devotedtodachshunds.co.uk). The site is a heaven for all sausage dog lovers everywhere, and since embarking on this project we can safely say we all want our own four legged sausage friend!
Our brand new reusable Christmas crackers featuring beautifully embroidered festive dachshunds.
The design process starts with some initial research and sketches of possible ideas. We then make some detailed drawings and recreate the chosen image on the computer, converting it to stitch.
Research and original sketches for the dachshund motifs.
Once we had created the first samples on our own embroidery machines, we took them to the Benton & Johnson factory in Bedworth. They have a huge twelve head embroidery machines which meant twelve crackers could be embroidered at once. We were absolutely fascinated when the machines were in motion, but please excuse the rookie mistake of incorrect camera rotation!
Each cracker was then pressed, crimped and tied. We then added one of our brand new swing tags and boxed them up ready to be sent to their new home.
Left: A big pile of the embroidered crackers ready to by rolled and tied. Right: The finished crackers complete with tags ready to be dispatched.
There are four designs to choose from (our favorite is the one in the Christmas jumper) and will be ready to purchase in the Autumn 2015.
Our favorite design, a little sausage dog proudly wearing a Christmas jumper.
June 17, 2015 at 8:04 am
Wow, the design process is so interesting and the photos are fab. I CANNOT wait to introduce these crackers to my customers. Thanks, Kate and team! Selina
June 23, 2015 at 1:26 pm
Thank you Selina. We are really pleased with the outcome and had great fun researching dachshunds!