Custom Chenille Letters: Full A-Z Alphabet Set $150

Yes. The Chenille Alphabet Package is all 26 letters from $150, which works out at about $5.77 a letter. You pick one size for the whole set, from 2 to 4 inches in half-inch steps, and one colour. Sizes up to 3 inches are $150; 3.5 inches is $173 and 4 inches is $198. A glitter background in gold, silver or red is $50 more. There is no mockup cycle because these are standard varsity glyphs — we confirm the yarn colour with you and the set goes straight to production. The price is all-in: free worldwide shipping, no setup or digitizing fees, and no duties on arrival.

Yes. The Chenille Numbers Package is all ten numerals, 0 through 9, ten pieces from $120, at $12 a numeral, in one size from 2 to 5 inches — sizes above 3 inches cost more, up to $210 at 5 inches. A glitter background is $30 more. Same construction as the alphabet set and the same felt base, so a year on a sleeve matches the letters on the chest when you order them together.

A standalone chenille letter needs to be at least 2 inches tall, and we recommend 3 inches or larger for clean loops. The limit comes from the yarn itself: chenille is looped pile, and below 2 inches the loop cannot hold the shape of the letter. The varsity convention for a main chest letter is 6 to 8 inches on an adult jacket and 4 to 6 on youth sizing, but that is tradition rather than a production limit.

Three yarn colours plus the base colour. Chenille does not reproduce gradients, so the design has to work in flat colour, which is exactly what a letter is. If you need more colours or fine detail inside the letter, we add embroidery on top of the chenille base.

There are 140 chenille yarn colours, and the full chart with every code is published on this page. Pick a code when you order and that is the cone we pull, so there is nothing to confirm and the set goes straight to production. Screens vary, so treat the swatches as a guide and the code as the promise. If the colour you need is not on the chart, give us a Pantone code, a colour name or a hex instead and we will email you the closest yarn to approve before we start.

Only if you asked for a colour that is not on our yarn chart. Choosing a chart code decides the yarn at checkout, so there is no approval step and no waiting: standard glyphs mean there is no mockup to approve either. If you gave us a Pantone reference, a colour name or a hex, someone picks the closest yarn we stock and emails it to you, and production does not start until you accept it. That approval usually adds a day or two.

Yes. Our chenille machines are digitally controlled, so the loop path is programmed once from your approved mockup and every piece in the run is made from that same path. Much of the industry still runs hand-guided machines, where an operator steers each piece by hand, which produces visible variation across a run and renders light yarns unevenly, white in particular. Order the whole set in one batch and the yarn also comes from a single dye lot.

Five pieces, at every size. There are no setup fees, no digitizing fees and no small-order surcharge, so a five-letter order gets the same free digital mockup and unlimited revisions as a five-hundred-letter order.

Yes. Year numerals such as “27” for the class of 2027 use exactly the same construction as letters and are typically 3 to 4 inches tall. Order them in the same batch as the letters so the yarn colours match.

We recommend sew-on for letterman jackets. Wool and leather bodies do not take a heat press well, and a sewn letter can be repositioned by a tailor if the layout changes over the years. Iron-on is available and is pressed from behind only, for 20 to 30 seconds with no adhesive spray, because direct heat on the pile flattens and scorches it.