Ron Grimes
Image Description: A hand-embroidered red pullover sweatshirt, featuring three figures across the center of the chest. These playful figures have arms outstretched and long spindly legs.
Image Description: A man is wearing the red embroidered pullover sweatshirt, and he is showing the camera the back, which has playful colorful letters spelling ALL I WANT FOR XMAS IS U in pink purple, brown, and yellow.
Image description: A masked model is wearing an embroidered denim hat with a burgundy bill. The embroidery spotlights an egg-shaped figure with small limbs, stitched in white, pink, yellow, and white.
bio
Ron Grimes makes country music sweaters. When he’s not expressing his love for country music with his loudest karaoke falsetto, Ron is quietly embroidering fashionable and unique garments with carefully detailed odes to his favorite songs and singers. Ron’s playful drawing style is translated into colorful stitches in embroidery floss, building up impressionistic renditions of celebrities like Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Brooks and Dunn, and Mariah Carey. Ron is always interested in taking commissions, so feel free to reach out to Elbow Room with an inquiry or request for a country music sweater.
Embroidery floss on denim hat
Embroidered text reads, “All I want for Xmas is U”. The price, “$75” is also stitched in.
Adjustable (for smaller heads)
2025
Ron Grimes
XL blue pullover sweatshirt.
Hand embroidered in 2025-26.
The embroidered image on the back represents a 125 dollar bill.
c.v.
Hand embroidered in 2025. XL red pullover. Text on the back reads: “All i want for xmas is u,” and the price is sewn into the right elbow: $125
2025
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