Calling All Drumstick Lovers! And No, I Don’t Mean a Chicken Leg
Updated: 3 days ago
If you are an ice cream person, you probably know exactly which Drumstick I mean. We recently got to turn that familiar cone into an embroidered patch here at Mr. Stitch, and this was one of those projects that made everyone in the shop a little hungry while we worked on it.
A Little Drumstick History
The Iconic Drumstick ice cream was created in 1928 and famously named “Drumstick” due to its uncanny resemblance to a cooked chicken leg. The creation of a cone with vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate and coated in peanuts has been the go-to ice cream cone for many people.
Its flavors melt perfectly in harmony and are beloved by ice cream lovers everywhere.
My personal favorite is the mint drumstick, I’m a sucker for the mint and chocolate duo, but nothing is more iconic than a classic drumstick. It is the original sundae cone. It was the product of innovation as before then ice cream was hard to transport. The problem with transporting an ice cream cone was the material it was made of. The ice cream would melt too fast to take anywhere. It would make the cone soggy. Luckily, by coating it all in chocolate (inside the cone and on the ice cream) this issue was resolved. We have been able to take the treat and transform it into a beautiful patch that has the perfect details that make the icon what it is.
Turning the Drumstick Into an Embroidered Patch
Our job was to take all of those familiar details and turn them into an embroidered patch. The goal was not to reinvent the Drumstick—it was to make the patch immediately feel like the product people already know.
Getting the Details Into Thread
A delectable covering, a hard chocolate shell that melts in your mouth surrounded by crunchy peanuts. Underneath, a mountain of soft vanilla ice cream filled down the tip of the cone. The sugar cone with all its perfect crossing lines tops it all off. The Drumsick logo stands out in its bright red color, perfect with its drumstick “i”. It is a patch using mainly fill stitches that make sure there is no black background to be seen, besides what is intended to be seen.
A Fun One for the Sherman Oaks Shop
We had a lot of fun putting this one together at our Sherman Oaks shop. We may also have ended up eating a few Drumsticks along the way because staring at the design for hours definitely created some patch-induced cravings.
The finished patch came out bright, recognizable and very summery—which feels pretty appropriate for an ice cream project in Los Angeles. Made with love and feelings of forever summer. The Mr. Stitch team
Update: The Patch Made It Into the Drumstick Ad
And then came the fun part: we got to see the patch used in a Drumstick advertisement. Take a look at the video below and see if you can spot it.
If you have a logo, product or original design you want turned into a custom patch, send us the artwork or bring the idea into our Sherman Oaks shop and we can take a look. Start a custom patch project with Mr. Stitch.
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