Donna Zahn has been sewing since she was seven years old.

When she was a girl, she used to love to crawl into her grandmother’s lap while the sewing machine chugged and whirred under her grandmother’s hands. Zahn says she loved to peddle the machine even then.

Now Zahn is the owner of Eastsound’s Sew n Sew, a custom embroidery and homemade knits shop.

The store was formerly Nature’s Art, which Linda Hamm retired from this year after nine years at the helm. Since August, Zahn has turned the store into a workshop where her customers bring their logos and graphics to be embroidered onto apparel and goods for baby and home.

Zahn opened the feeling inside the store by removing the dressing screens and adding light, giving it the feel of a true workshop where the customer can see Zahn at work on the machines making their custom designs.

Zahn takes any jpeg image and digitizes it with her embroidery machine, allowing it to be reproduced on hundreds of selections.

“It doesn’t get old,” Zahn said, noting that working with so many different customer needs keeps her tasks fresh and made to order.

According to Zahn, tourists come in for Orcas keepsakes, like hats and t-shirts, and her island customer base buys fleets of custom logo shirts for their businesses.

“I have a new pricing structure based on stitch count,” Zahn said.

Designs and logos are kept with Zahn indefinitely, allowing the digitization to be simplified and changes to reorders, like color, can be easily and efficiently done. Once the product is received, Zahn completes the embroidered items within 10 days. Zahn can put an embroidered logo on almost anything from dishtowels to nautical flags.

“As long as it will fit on my machine,” Zahn said.

Sew n Sew also sells handmade afghans, soft blankets, stuffed animals, and bags that can be embroidered onto and shipped anywhere. There is no minimum order. By mid-January, Sew n Sew will also carry items made of 100 percent bamboo or organic cotton as well as recycled totes and hats.

Sewing has always been a tradition in Zahn’s family, as it was passed on from her great-grandmother to her grandmother to her mother and now to Zahn. She calls the women in her family her mentors who taught her to sew and other skills.

“I can cook because of them too,” Zahn said proudly.

Sew n Sew is located at 269 Main Street in Eastsound. More information is available at orcassewnsew.com.