Embroidery Designs Guide

Good things come in small packages…. every day!! Check out a free embroidery design every day at All Free Embroidery Designs.

Most of the designs are in pes embroidery format. The website also allows users to create their own account, log in and submit their free designs along with a link back.

True to its name, here is some seemingly simple but dazzling Unique Embroidery. This website has a selection of close to 180 free embroidery designs and it is growing by the day. Check the leafy petalled flower, elegantly embroidered using 7438 stitches. This is sized at 5.09 by 5.09 inches and is available for free download in ART, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, VIP, XXX machine embroidery formats. The information on how to convert the files from PC compatible software to your embroidery machine would come in handy and you could read it at PC-Machine formats embroidery.

The second embroidery design that caught my attention is the unique necklace. Using a combination of 2 vibrant colours, the pattern is beautiful. This has 8744 stitches and is sized at 9.36 by 14.41 inches. Both the outer and inner stitches combine to form this unique pattern.

Have you come across any such unique collections in your world of embroidery. You could showcase your designs at All Free Embroidery Designs. Feel free to share!

I thought of treating all of you to some of the best free embroidery design resources available on the web. Check out the first resource at ABC. This contains good quality free machine embroidery designs. Once you register and log in to the website, you can avail of the design formats available in art, pes, hus, pcs, jef, xxx, dst, exp, shv, vip and sew formats. For more information on these formats, reach out at PC Machine embroidery formats. Most of the embroidery patterns are less than 5 inches in width and height with not more than 15 color threads which makes it quite easy to replicate. Debsews has a small but cute collection of free applique embroidery designs. The free standing lace coaster is done quite symmetrically well. FreeTommy displays one new free embroidery design every hour. Most of these designs are cross stitch and done quite beautifully. All Free Embroidery Designs displays a free design every day and has a collection of free embroideries. You could log into this resource. You could also submit your free embroidery design at All-Free for display.

Here is a splendid lively resource for free machine embroidery designs. This is Deb’s Windstar Embroidery. The website has some unique categories like ‘Cute-N-Lovely’, ‘Celestials’, ‘Sayings and Phrases’ embroidery designs. There is also an ‘All Awareness’ appliques ribbon embroidery design set perfect for fund raising and charities.

I draw particular attention to the free machine embroidery designs section, which have some good designs available to you on free sign up. These designs are available in the pes, hus, jef or other formats of your choice and the same can be downloaded in a zipped file. Apart from this, the pdf-formatted design information file or color chart would give you all other details. The information on machine embroidery designs would come in handy here.
Check out the Peppermint Teddies Set (marching with Candy Canes). It is sized at 3.42″ by 3.78″ with a stitch count of 11,293. It contains 6 colors and is perfect for 4″ by 4″ hoop.

If you are interested in converting computer generated images, camera digitized files and clip arts into machine embroidery designs, you have reached the right place. I have been getting a few requests on queries related to converting pictures into embroidery designs and I hope that this post gives some insight into the process.

After doing some research, we found one software that is easy to install, easy to use and most important - easy to understand. Just THREE steps required! Design Authority is a home machine embroidery software, which needs Windows 98, Pentium III computer to work with. The final output can be exported to Brother(.pes), Elna(.sew), Janome(.sew), Melco(.exp), Tajima(.dst), Toyota(.10O), Barudan(.hduxx), Happy(.tap), Sunstar(.sst), Pfaff(.ksm), Juki(amsm3), Mitsubishi(,1xx), Komtekct(.cem) There is a section on free downloadable embroidery designs, where you can download samples of standard fill, advanced fill and photostitch embroideries! (You could also go to Diana portrait to see the art of photostitch hand embroidering.) The ship you see next to this post is a free standard fill embroidery design converted from a picture and is available in all machine formats.

Antonia Valentine is a classic machine embroiderer recognised by the Australian Textile Arts and Surface Design Association Inc. After exploring various categories of hand and machine embroidery designs, she finally focused on freestyle machine and digital embroidery often enhanced with hand stitches too! Her tryst with artista embroidery began right here. Her embroidery photographs manipulated on the computer were often used as inspiration in the design process.

Her works are displayed at AStitch Design. Check out the garden collection. They are beautiful especially the tulips, poinsettia and the daffodils. All of them are artista and are digitised in Bernina © Artista software. They can be downloaded as Artista v2 and Artista v3. The information on machine embroidery techniques would come in handy here.

There are also quite a few free embroidery designs available at ‘AStitch’. You can scroll down and click on “Freebies”.

Hi everybody, I just came across some great looking eagle embroidery designs at an Embroidery Library - Click on “Creatures of Air”. These designs can be stitched using tajima, melco, brother, artista, viking, pfaff, jenome formats and the information on machine embroidery would come in very handy here. What I liked about these embroidery designs was the striking nature in which the birds have been sewed. The eagle here is 3.5″ wide x 3.45″height and it is done up with a total of 23545 stitches. Isn’t she a beauty? What is remarkable is that each feather of her body is clearly stitched out which provides for a great visual appeal. All the designs can be used as machine applique embroideries and the information on applique embroidery designs would come in useful here. You can also go through a free tutorial on applique instructions far down below on the home page of Embroidery Library.

Another great resource for you on free machine embroidery designs - ABC Embroidery. A repository of good embroideries indeed! Almost all the free patterns are perfectly suitable for 4×4 embroidery hoops. The information and tutorial on endless hoop embroidery designs would be helpful here.

The butterfly next to this post is a cutwork special - 2.91″ x 2.84″, contains 7246 stitches and is made of one single color. You can download this in all embroidery formats - ART, PES, HUS, JEF, XXX, DST, EXP, SHV, VIP or PCS. Special cutwork embroidery instructions have been included along with this download.

The information on digitizing embroidery software would come in useful if you are interested in knowing more about how one interfaces the PC with the embroidery machine.

If you are searching for charming baby embroidery designs, your search ends here!

We have for you here some unique free embroidery designs straight out of Disneyland! All characters at Needlework have been embroidered really well. What is more important is that a great deal of information has been given for each of the free machine embroidery patterns. To give you an example of the free cartoon embroidery design of Minnie Mouse next to this post, the total number of stitches is 18958 and the size is 88×113 mm.

The free download contains the .dst file needed for your embroidery machine and the image contains the thread consumption details - White(4.5m), Medium pink(11.2m), Pink(6.0m), Meadow(1.6m), Orange(0.2m), Marine aqua(5.7m), Floral pink(0.7m), Red(0.7m), Silver grey(1.8m), Black(26.1m). The upper thread is 59.6m and the bobbin is 19.9m. The polyester details of each thread are also well detailed. These disney embroidery designs would be suitable for baby dresses, bibs, towels and bedsheets. Very very cute indeed!

Quilting was earlier practised only by a few institutions on a larger scale. These days, this technique has entered the house with ordinary embroiderers practising this with ease. If you are a novice and interested to learn, we have the perfect resource for you - The Beginners Guide to Quilting by Penny Halgren. The goal of this guide is to teach you to transform ordinary fabric into a beautiful handmade quilt. With just 9 easy-to-follow steps and full photographs of the quilt (work-in-progress), quilt sewing is not only easy but also fun. At the same time, Penny ensures that this is not just another blanket. The book comes with five free bonus gifts which includes an offer to post your handmade quilt on the website for free for one week. If you just want to check your skills on quilting, try the free 7 day mini course which will give information on fabric cutting, colors management, keeping blocks in order among other important tips on quilting. Take a look at the butterfly quilt next to this post. This has been split into 3 parts to be paper-pieced. Then the center body is appliqued. The antenna are drawn on with a pigma pen. 4 fabrics would be needed for this quilt block - 2 colors for the wings, a background color and black for the body. Before you leave, dont miss the 200 free quilt patterns available!