I live in Jasper and if your neighbor doesn't have time, I do embroidery for people all the time. I agree that you definitely don't want to do the embroidery on the back through all three layers and have it show on the front. The back of embroidery is never very pretty! What about using (assuming there are at least four colors) four different rectangles or squares of the fabric from the front to have their name embroidered and piecing them into the back? Just a thought. PM me if you need the embroidery done.