Embroidery Designs Guide

Check out this collection of applique and puff embroidery at Mushroom Monday Screen Printing & Embroidery. This is done using digitized embroidery done specific to your custom requirements which specifically caters to groups of people or staff with a common logo or symbol. Made to order - this is ideal for a complete set of jacket or headgear for your employees or particular group of friends who identify with a common cause. Mushroom Monday have 22 years experience with an impressive clientele. Their mission statement reads : “To provide quality products to our customers with unsurpassed customer service.”

Cross stitch is an innovative form of embroidery which is basically a double stitch forming a X in sewing and embroidery. It could also be needlework made of X stitches.

One of the stunning cross stitch projects I came across was : Capture The Mystery Of Egypt project - Ancient Egyptian Cross Stitch. This features 25 glittering and historically accurate projects from the pyramids, the Great Sphinx to the hieroglyphics. It covers the scarabs to the river Nile. Few of the larger projects include King Tutankhamen, Sphinx and a goddess. It also has quite a large amount of smaller motifs ideal for bookmarks including Osiris, the eye of Horus, Isis, Anubis. At the end of the book you can find a few border designs. This book uses quite a lot of color mostly green, red, yellow, and blue. It provides colored charts containing symbols for easy identification. A definite must have for any cross stitcher!

The inner powers really reveal themselves in this creative guide. You could use these as attractive wall hangings or bag adornments.

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.

I came across this resource called Jersey Forms, Body Forms (you see this just above this post and below the image) - on elegant accessories done using flower and beadwork embroidery techniques. It is called “A touch of Asia” and features various jewellery containers, lipstick cases and change purses. This collection contains some unique and simple beadwork on an otherwise ordinary purse. The beadwork fruit motif and rooster are good examples of these. The watermelon (shaped like a cut piece) is sized at 5″ x 3.5″ and the pineapple is 4″ x 4″. The rooster purse which comes with a blue background (sized at 4.25″ x 3.88″) and multi color combination looks awesome.

The jewellery container is a satin folding pouch sized at 8.63″ x 5.5″. The highlight of this piece is the flower embroidery on its outer covers. Some other products are the coin purse with side charm, 5 in 1 Asian multipurpose accessories clutch and the satin covered lipstick case with mirror.

Embroidery softwares form a powerful tool in effective designing and an embroiderer often uses these tools for monograms, digitizing, sizing, fonts to name a few. Digitizing is the art of porting simple embroidery designs, photos, logos or clipart into a computer readable format which makes it a standard and universal method of replicating these designs to the same specifications in the shortest possible time.

Check out this collection of softwares at Sewing Machine Outlet. Apart from the digitizing softwares available, they have unique sizing and monogram software. The Melco sizing software has features like full scaling of designs with automatic stitch adjustment, it can rotate and transform designs, can adjust stitch counts by adding or removing stitches to retain design quality and has the ability to read or write major commercial and home formats. The embroidery card convertor boxes has the ability to read and write most embroidery formats to blank card and can download pre-digitized designs from internet, PC, hard drive. A blank card can hold up to 6 designs at a time and can work with almost all embroidery machines and existing embroidery software.

The click ‘n stitch ‘xtra with applique software (you can see the front cover above this post) can quickly create embroidery, cross-stitch and applique designs from clip art or scanned images.

Here is a preview to a world class style of stitching - the Brazilian embroidery stitching technique. The Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery International Guild Inc began in 1991 with the single objective of promoting the art of Brazilian embroidery. This non profit organisation used the platform of seminars, newsletters, websites and workshops as a tool to popularise this amazing art.

Some of the stiching styles can be viewed at their web page. The popular stitch types are the bullion, buttonhole, drizzle, leaf, pistil and stem categories. As you notice, nature has played a large role in moulding this art. This technique of hand embroidery has been explained in detail at the instructions page of the above mentioned website. For example in the leaf stitch, the formation of the knots and anchoring towards the tip of the leaf has been explained lucidly. The drizzle stitch is a version of cast-on-buttonhole stitch, which can be plain (which creates a spiralling effect) or up-down (which creates a firm drizzle and does not spiral).

Elk, moose and deer have one common feature which is accentuated in any painting or embroidery and this feature are the horns. These horns or antlers form a woven pattern in itself and various creative mazes can come into view over the animal’s head. This common feature differentiated these designs from ordinary animal embroidery designs and they formed a subtype called elk embroidery designs.

Check out this collection at Joann Designs. This is a vast resource of various types of moose, deer and elk. What is unique is that outlines and silhouttes of deer are also covered in this resource. The mix of designs is good which gives it a wholistic view.

The deer you see to your left is one of the examples. This is 4.44 inches width by 6.03 inches height with a stitch count of 19178. This is available in most machine embroidery formats like CND, CSD, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, SEW, XXX, PCS. The information on machine embroidery would come in handy here.

Some of the other ones which you should not miss are the charging deer, oval fawn scene and moose outline. The moose in circle you see adjacent here is another example of a good patch-in which can find uses in various home embroidery items. This is a 3.69 inches width by 3.69 inches height with a stitch count of 13919. The number of colors used here are 6.

Dakota means “friend” and is the name of a native American people of the Northern Mississippi Valley (USA). The people of Dakota have had a passion for embroidery over generations. Dakota embroidery designs is the name coined by embroiderers giving strength to the popularity of this special style of embroidering appliques which you can view in these resources.

Check out this Dakota collectibles resource at GoNuts. A really cute set of dakota embroidery designs. All the patterns are perfect for kids wear. The picture you see next to this post is the Turtle applique. This has been stitched using 5 colors - tackdown, white, dark charcoal, lime and green. The size is 4.64 inches wide by 5.13 inches height. The total stitch count is 16721.

We have for you today a very focused and niche area of machine embroidery designs - phrases embroidery designs. Check it out at Stitchbank.

Each of the designs have one particular saying or phrase and the theme revolves around this. Depending on the occasion or ones preferences, you can choose a particular design. The sayings could be simple and general like “The best day in my life is today” or specific like “You make my heart sing”. The image in the phrase should match the mood of the meaning of the saying. Innovation or creativity is the key and what is portrayed at Stitchbank is only a starter for us. It is for us to use our own phrases and make our embroidery designs.

The machine pattern next to this post has a height of 83.2 mm with width of 110.6 mm. It is made in 3 colors with a total of 15110 stitches.

Mardi Gras (French for “Fat Tuesday”) is also called “Shrove Tuesday”, the final day of Carnival (pronounced “CAR-nuh-vul” in English; “car-nee-VAHL” in most Romance languages – and in New Orleans, Lousiana, because of its French heritage). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent.

Check out this great resource for mardi gras embroidery embroidery designs at Studio 3 Designs…really a treasure trove. All designs are available in the following formats - ART, PES, HUS, CSD, EXP, SEW, PCS, DST, XXX & JEF and the information on machine embroidery designs would come in handy here. The resource contains patterns in two hoop sizes - 3.9 by 3.9 inches and the large size - 5 by 7 inches or the 6.9 by 5 inches. All patterns are done in the traditional cultural overflowing mask fashion and are a treat to embroider.

The mask over the eyes for all the embroidery designs are focused and stitched clearly. Effort has gone in to ensure consistency in the waves of patterns around the face which form the hallmark of mardi gras embroidery designs.