How a kid's drawing becomes a hoodie
Most orders start with a phone photo of a drawing stuck to the fridge. Snap a clear shot in good light, upload it on the product page, and our art team turns it into a clean embroidery file. The line stays your kid's; we don't redraw it from scratch or fix wonky proportions. The wobble is the point.
One of our 13 industrial Melbourne embroidery machines stitches it onto the garment you chose. Two weeks from order to dispatch, posted via AusPost with tracking. If you'd like to see the digitised line before we stitch, add the draft approval option on the product page and we'll email it within three business days.
Single colour, or up to four
By default we keep kid's drawings to a single thread colour, usually black or navy on lighter garments and white on darker ones. Single-colour reads cleanly as embroidery and translates almost any photographed drawing without retouching. If your kid used four crayons in four different colours and the colour is part of the picture, mention it in the order notes and we'll do up to four thread colours per design.
What we stitch onto
The kid's drawing range spans the full RK garment library. Kid sizes 2 through 16, youth sizes, womens and mens hoodies, tees, crewnecks, long-sleeves and totes. Heavyweight 380GSM hoodies for winter, lighter mid-weight crewnecks for the rest of the year. Same drawing, any garment, so a four-year-old's first stick figure can end up on her shirt and her grandfather's hoodie at the same time.
Mother's Day, Father's Day, and the gifts in between
Kid's drawing embroidery sits in the top tier of the actually personal gift category. The peak buying weeks each year are the fortnight before Mother's Day, the fortnight before Father's Day, the week before each grandparent's birthday, and December. Plan two-and-a-half to three weeks of lead time to be safe (two weeks to make, plus shipping). If your deadline is tight, email us first and we'll check what's possible.
The drawing changes; the embroidery doesn't
A four-year-old's drawing of a dog is not the drawing they'll make at seven. Most families end up with one embroidered piece per era, the way previous generations kept a finger-painting on the kitchen wall until it faded. We stitch with quality polyester thread on garments built for actual wear, so the era you preserved stays preserved. If you'd like a quick walkthrough on getting a clean photo of a paper drawing, we wrote one: How to photograph your kid's drawing for embroidery.
