Embroidery Designs Guide

For all lovers of machine embroidery patterns, this is a great resource of free downloadable embroidery designs, (all in NGS format) - Stitch.com. If you want to convert the format from NGS to something compatible with your embroidery machine, pls go to Coats EDV - You can register yourself OR use this login - “shikhadeepak@gmail.com” and password -”welcome” - all small case letters - and download the free software - Coats EDV16. Armed with this software, you can see the digitized embroidery designs used to programme major makes of embroidery machines.

You can also use it for tracking your designs and exchanging information with key friends and customers without worrying about the machine format. As for the free embroidery patterns, the best I liked was the rooster beside the post. Very colourful and complete in all respects. The shaded effect and the feathers are done exceptionally well.

Thanks to one and all for the overwhelming comments on my various posts. Keep writing back to me on your expectations OR on any topic that you found interesting! You can use the “Contact Us” button right at the bottom of any Embroidery Designs Guide page.

We are here with a contest for all of you! All of you have been associated with the world of embroidery in some way or the other. Pen down your experiences in the form of any project/learning done in embroidery. The best entry gets a 100 dollar gift certificate from Embroidery.com. Not just that, we will also display the best entry on our website under the relevant category. Consolation Prizes - wait and watch! What exactly would the judgement be based upon. The originality of the writeup, image and interest aroused would be the key performance criteria. Just be yourself and reach out to the audience. The rest will follow. Deadline for submission is March 25th 2006. How do I submit? You can mail your articles in to shikhadeepak@embroidery-designs-guide.com (The freebie that you see beside this post is from Embroidery.com. You would find a range of free embroidery designs at “All Products” > “Embroidery Designs” > “Free Designs”. The butterfly is 2.34″ by 3.74″ design available for you in various formats. This has 12058 stitches and is available in ART, PES, SEW, JEF, EXP, CND, VIP, PCS, CSD, XXX, DST, HUS, EMB formats.)

Among the fastest growing databases of free machine embroidery designs, here is one I came across at the Embroidery Forums. A couple of the free embroidery designs are related to the mega Christmas season, but most of the others are good ones contributed by our community of embroidery enthusiasts. In the last 3 weeks, we have 13 patterns contributed and made available for you in various embroidery formats.

The one that caught my eye was the free downloadable swirly Christmas tree design available in jef, vip and pes formats. (The information on PC machine embroidery would come in handy here) The beauty of this design lies in its simplicity. With just a couple of twirls and a few stars, the entire tree comes into view. Thanks to Monkella, who contributed this.

This is also the right moment for me to announce the launch of All Free Embroidery Designs - a showcase project of free embroidery designs. I would be delighted to have your feedback on our new venture!

After receiving a few requests on free embroidery design software, we did some researching on this subject. We are happy to announce that we have found a good free embroidery software that would convert your favourite photographs into embroidery designs. It is free to download at Pixel Hobby. Once you upload the photograph - almost immediately the software develops the embroidery design along with the colour details. You could then click on the print option which gives the details of the base plates, color codes and pixels. Finally you have an option for ordering the necessary base plates and threads required for stitching the particular design.

I tried it myself for a photograph of my twin children Keshav and Madhav - the output of which you see alongside this post. They came out quite well and distinct after choosing 4 baseplates for each axis. The total number of colours necessary for this embroidery design is 70 with 275 pixel squares. Let me know once you experiment on this. One could actually embroider one’s favourite photos through this software. We could have another section on free embroidery designs through this exercise.

A great resource on cutwork embroidery designs for you here from Sadia Sews. Sadia Andrews, born in Sialkot, Pakistan has a rich cultural background of Russian, Kashmiri and Persian which reflects in her arts. With a range of interests spanning from flowering, cutwork, quilting and other forms of embroidery, this is a treatise to enjoy. A special mention on the rose cutwork collection, one of which lies next to this post. These are striking embroideries with the perfect mix of colours to bring out the essence of the roses. There are a few free downloadable cutwork embroidery designs in the same collection. You could also visit All Free Embroidery Designs to check out some more available freebies.

Its Christmas time! This is a great time to look at some of the best old fashioned Christmas embroideries we have at SecretsOf.com - Navigate through Home -> Everything for Embroidery -> Scroll down to “A Bit of Stitch” -> Old Fashioned Xmas. These are great appliques and can be used on towels, greeting cards, table linens, pillows, wall hangings and winter cardigans. A thin layer of cotton under the applique fabric gives the patterns a 3D look and feel. Applique directions and special instructions are included in the color charts. All designs are sized for the 5×7 hoop.

I would like to draw special attention to the free downloadable embroidery game - Tic Tac Toe done using machine embroidery and is available in hus, jef, pcs, vip, sew formats! Have a great Christmas this year.

A huge and well made selection of free machine embroidery designs at Embroider This. It is really heartening to see so many good embroidery designs - many of them cross stitch - available in all formats for FREE. The color information and the zipped file of each design can be downloaded to your machine. The information on machine embroidery techniques would come in handy here.

The “magic fingers” cross stitch freebie next to this post is 3.90 x 3.90 inches with 16 colors. This is ideal for a 4″ by 4″ hoop. This is available for download in pes, pcs, hus, dst, xxx, jef, exp, art formats. The butterfly at dawn machine embroidery design and the spring song cross stitch freebie are also worth stitching.

I just came across these free machine embroidery designs at Embroidery Emotions, which I wanted to share with you. This place has unique looking embroidery designs full of emotion, which you really should not miss. Some of the free pes embroidery designs can be downloaded immediately. Designs can be downloaded in other formats too. There are special offers, packages and new embroidery designs, all related to machine embroidery.

Embroidery Emotions regularly updates its collections and one would view a fresh site every week!

Free embroidery designs are available at SewVac. All these designs are artista and can be freely downloaded using the Art 3.0, Art 2.0, Art 1.0 formats, Sew format for Janome/New Home or the Pes format for Deco. All the embroidery patterns have been done using the Artista 3.0 digitizing software.

Of all the free embroidery downloads, I liked this symmetrical one next to the post. The colour combinations and design structure are excellent giving it an attractive look.

If you recollect, I had written about the amazing silk embroidery designs, where the threads were so fine that the final design looked like a photograph. I now introduce you to the impressionist photograph or sketch design done through your embroidery machine. This is called the photo-stitch technique and is reminiscent of pencil or crayon sketches, rather than embroidery. If you take the example of this girl, the entire design is done in 10-12 layers of stitches. The first couple of layers are just the skin on her face. The next few would focus on features like eyes, nose and ears. Then would come the finishing touches to the hair, making the entire embroidery design more dense. Each of these layers are stitched one after the other. You can liken it to a far away blurred image slowly focusing and coming into the foreground. The final output looks awesome and complex, but it is actually done in 12 easy layers. (like they say, the only way to chew an elephant is to bite it into small pieces)

Click here for free tutorials on the photo-stitch design. Details of choice of the right fabric, stabilizer and method of hooping is elaborately described here. For this particular girl, the size of the hoop is 89.0 x 152.7 mm, the total number of stitches is 45001 and there are 12 colors used. This photo-stitch embroidery design can be freely downloaded using *.ART *.DST *.HUS *.JEF *.PES *.VIP *.XXX and the information on machine embroidery would come in handy here.