One of my best friends just presented me with this beautiful hand embroidered oak leaf. Simply a marvelous job! Here is the description of the design as reproduced from the place she got it from -

“This hand embroidery design is worked in detached chain stitch on hand dyed fabric leaving just the area of the leaf un-stitched. This design technique is described as the voided shape technique where the image itself is not stitched but the surrounding area is.

A variety of yarns were used including commercially dyed stranded cottons, hand dyed stranded cottons and rayon threads.”

What really amazed me was the way in which the leaf seems to emerge from the background and the clarity of the veins of the leaf design, which were a cut above the rest.

If you want to see the wonders of Brother embroidery designs, you must visit Brother-USA. They have the most wonderful collection and really work as a showcase of brother embroidery machine designs. There are free downloadable embroidery designs which you can work on right away. The designs are bright with clear stitches which portrays a lot of confidence. To share with you the stitch details for the free embroidery design shown next to this post, the width is 90.6mm and the height is 78.2mm. The stitch count is 8641 and the color code is Purple, Yellow, Vermilion, Red, Lilac, Magenta, Purple, White – (614), (205), (030), (800), (612), (620), (614), (001). Have a great time stitching on your brother embroidery machine!

I was amazed at the complexity of embroidering a firefighter design. The difficulty encountered in fighting an ongoing fire pales in comparison to creating a firefighter embroidery design. A bit of exaggeration only to drive home the point! Compared to truck embroidery designs, these designs are more intricate and require good sewing skills to do it perfectly. In the adjoining design, the ladder part needs utmost attention. Generally all these designs are done using machine embroidery using formats like ART, CND, CSD, DST, EMB, EXP, HUS, JEF, PCM, PES, SEW, VIP or XXX.

I just laid my hands on the cutest looking truck embroidery designs at Designs By Sick – Scroll down and you would find “Trucks”, click on it to bring you to a world full of truck embroidery designs. Truck brings to my mind an extremely dull looking vehicle, but these designs have literally changed this image of mine. All designs are done using machine embroidery design techniques. You can use the following formats to do these designs on your embroidery machine – DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PCS, PES, SEW, XXX.

Check out these tennis embroidery designs I found at ThreadArtist.com – scroll down and you will see many sports embroidery designs which also includes tennis and embroidery design. They are all less than 5 dollars a piece and can be immediately downloaded. They are all done using machine embroidery design techniques.

Check the embroidery design next to this post. The net of the racquet is intricately done and is the highlight of this embroidery design.

I just came across a good article on flip flop embroidery designs at Artistic Thread Works – You can search for “flip flop” through the search function – scroll down to find the Florida Sole Beach Bag information. There was a contest run called the Florida Sole Beach Bag Contest where the best flip flop embroidery designs came up for recognition. Genia’s designs on her beach bag is outstanding. Genia’s story on how she sewed the embroidery designs on the beach bag is really interesting.

Here is an extract of her email to Larry “The outline of Florida I did myself, along with the lettering using Designer’s Gallery LetterWorks. The bag itself gave me the excuse (like I really needed one) to go fabric hunting. So we, my husband, Mark and Mildred, his Mom, loaded up in the truck and headed out to Pensacola to see what we could find. Crestview is not the biggest town to fabric shop in. With most, all the flip flops were applique embroidery designs and I was on a mission. I managed to get out of town with some really good bargains, came home and sat down and started sewing. I like really bright and unusual color contrast and came up with the combinations that I did. The ones with the fringe flowers is Phyllis’ design. Those are my favorites. It’s real easy to do as long as you use a contrasting bobbin thread, so it can be seen and cut after it’s stitched. Once it’s carefully cut, you pull the top thread back through and fluff the threads.”

The information on embroidery machines would come in handy here.

I introduce you to the official Cadre Athletic Oklahoma St. Cowboys Embroidered T-Shirt, which you see alongside this post. This Tshirt is 6.1 ounce 100% cotton with athletic cut short sleeve tee shirt and ribbed collar. It contains the applique embroidered team name and logo on the chest. This officially licensed shirt is generally decorated in the team colors during any sporting event. This is available for sale at an affordable price of 22 dollars (price is subject to change in the future) excluding shipping at Amazon.Com. Do spread the word around!