Can You Start an Embroidery Business With ONE Machine? | BAI Vision

Can you start and run an embroidery business with just ONE embroidery machine? In Episode 1 of our Starting & Growing an Embroidery Business series, we’re putting our BAI Vision 15-needle single-head commercial embroidery machine to work on a real customer order to find out. We’re producing 20 Richardson 675 Flex Adjustable hats for Canes East Baseball featuring a professionally digitized CE logo with 3D puff embroidery. One reason we brought embroidery in-house at The Hometown Co. was to handle small-batch embroidery and custom hat orders without forcing customers into large minimums. Using the BAI Vision embroidery machine, InStitch embroidery software, and a real customer order, we’re answering: Can one single-head embroidery machine realistically handle a small embroidery business? Each hat takes approximately 9 minutes of embroidery stitch time, plus hooping, loading, finishing, and cleanup. We estimate this 20-hat custom embroidery order will take approximately 3½–4 hours of total production time. Throughout this series, we’ll document real hat embroidery, 3D puff embroidery, custom embroidery orders, production times, mistakes, costs, workflow, and capacity to see how far you can grow an embroidery business with one machine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧵 BAI EMBROIDERY | AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE We purchased our BAI Vision embroidery machine ourselves. BAI did not provide the machine. We were already using our Vision when BAI reached out about becoming an official affiliate. BAI is sponsoring this video, but the opinions and experiences shared are our own. We’re documenting the good, the bad, the mistakes, and what we learn using a commercial embroidery machine for real customer orders. Purchases through our BAI affiliate links may earn The Hometown Co. a commission at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛒 BAI EMBROIDERY MACHINES ⭐ BAI Vision — The Machine We’re Using https://bai.store/details/THEVISION?i... BAI Mirror https://bai.store/details/THEMIRROR?i... BAI Vision 2-Heads https://bai.store/details/THEVISION2H... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧵 BAI EMBROIDERY SUPPLIES & CONSUMABLES Embroidery Thread https://bai.store/products/embroidery... Prewound Bobbins https://bai.store/products/embroidery... Embroidery Stabilizer https://bai.store/products/embroidery... Embroidery Needles https://bai.store/products/embroidery... Embroidery Hoops https://bai.store/products/embroidery... Mighty Hoop & HoopMaster https://bai.store/products/embroidery... Embroidery Supply Bundles https://bai.store/products/embroidery... 🛒 SHOP ALL BAI MACHINES & SUPPLIES https://bai.store/?invitation_code=US... 💰 SAVE $200 ON SELECT BAI EMBROIDERY MACHINES BAI Affiliate Code: US00IAA8151 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧢 FOLLOW THE HOMETOWN CO. 🌐 Website: https://thehometownco.com 📸 Instagram:   / the_hometown_co   📱 TikTok:   / thehometownco   👍 Facebook:   / 1emjpwwxgn   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 STARTING & GROWING AN EMBROIDERY BUSINESS Follow along as we put our BAI Vision commercial embroidery machine through real customer orders and document what it actually takes to start and grow an embroidery business with one machine. We’ll cover hat embroidery, 3D puff embroidery, embroidery business workflow, production times, custom hat orders, equipment, mistakes, costs, and growing an embroidery business. 💬 COMMENT: What’s the biggest custom hat order you think we can realistically handle with ONE embroidery machine? 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to The Hometown Co. and follow the series. The Hometown Co. Custom Headwear • Embroidery • Signature Leatherette Dallas, Georgia #EmbroideryBusiness #BAIVision #HatEmbroidery