Comp-U-Wear

The story of EZ Piecing and Baby Shirt Express begin with Debi's Designs and Comp-U-Wear. As Debi's Designs was borne originally from customized knit products like knit inserts in sweatshirts or exotic sweaters, the products evolved in the early 1990s.

Comp-U-Wear started life then as a point-of-sale store in San Juan Bautista that sold custom one-off products - and many cooking aprons with a menu from "The Road Kill Cafe" - back when memes were sent by fax instead of social media - and pioneered using dye-sublimation printers (using now antique Seiko and Hitachi printers that cost more than $1 per print - in 1992). Comp-U-Wear then added a dye sublimation system from "The Color Factory" in San Diego and worked out perfecting the mass-production system that led to massive cost reductions in print costs. The significantly longer setup times however meant the retail point-of-sale business kind of died, and the business shifted to doing promotional work for the commercial sector.

Comp-U-Wear trudged along without finding a particular knack for many years; sublimating pictures on coffee mugs, making silky smooth jackets with business logos, and many different products. It wasn't until Baby Shirt Express came along that Comp-U-Wear started to find a niche market and focus on a single product-line with a single commercial focus. This was of course until EZ Piecing came along and changed the game, combining Deborah's love of sewing, quilting, and fabric along with innovative dye sublimation printing, geometry, and mathematics to build creative patterns.