Free Embroidery Designs

I have seen websites that show how to do stitches, but how do I make an entire design? For example, my cousin used a machine to embroider initials and it was beautiful, but my grandmother insisted she could do better "in her day" by hand…however she has arthritis and can no longer do it, let alone teach me. Also, I live in a small area, there aren’t classes to take so that isn’t reasonable. Any basic suggestions or instructions would be lovely 🙂

Begin with small things with larger stitches.

The major forms of hand-embroidery can be grouped into free-style and counted-thread.

Counted thread is done on relatively coarse fabric (ideally with the equal warp & woof counts). It can be done from charts or designs may be applied directly to the fabric and counted-stitching used for the design. One very simple method of beginning to learn this is to use a pale gingham check for an easy-to-see grid (no smaller than 5 squares/inch for learning). Shirt to other fabrics and finer counts with experience. I done counted work on handkerchief linen when I need to do so.

Ask for the assistance of the Reference Librarian at your library. There may be helpful instructional manuals there for free-style embroidery. If ILL (Inter-Library Loan) is available, the world’s at your fingertips. There’s also the Internet. Search [embroidery how-to] or [embroidery instructions stitches] etc.

I have some pictures for a sewing project and i need them embroidered i have a brother pe400 sewing/embroidery machine. I’m looking for some software to simply change pictures to stitches. would prefer free, but I am willing to pay for it. I have to computers, a windows and mac.

The software you need to be compatible with a sewing machine so specific should have been included when you purchased it. If you do not have the software already you can download it from the brother website. Hopefully this works for you!

Cheers!

i want to download embroidery books for free so for that which site allows to download the embroidery books for free
please help??????????????

http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Hand%20Embroidery/Projects/
My favorite book on embroidery is a simple pamphlet I picked up years ago, it has clear line drawings for the stitches and plain explanations. I think it might have cost a couple of dollars.

I have a janome machine and want to create my own lace design. I really want to do my own. Does anyone use Embird or some other program? How hard is it to do?

I use the Digitizer10000 software that Janome sells. I know you can do some digitizing with Embird, but I don’t know how.
The steps I take in D10K are:
1. Scan the design (I draw out my designs first)
2. First layer is straight line embroidery, no satin stitch. This keeps the design in place. This is done in color 1.
3. Satin stitch the design over the straight lines. Do this in color 2.
4. Satin stitch again, with a stitch slight wider than before, starting and stopping in different places. Do this in color 3.
5. Finally, satin stitch one more time right over #4 (color3). Do this in color 4.
6. Stitch it out and fine tune as needed.
I use the different colors so I can tell which layer needs adjusting. I have made some where the stitches in the satin lines get closer (tighter) with each layer. For testing purposes, I keep the different colors and stitch out using netting between Solvy. I have found that if my design is weak and needs a lot of help that the netting keeps it all together – very important the first test stitch!
From there, I tweak the design as needed. Once I like how it stitches out, I change all the colors to one so the machine doesn’t stop between layers anymore. I save multiple copies as I work.
Laces can be time consuming to digitize. I have created two small lace pieces but I prefer to purchase the designs.
Good luck!

Again, that program is called Digitizer10000. Sold by Janome dealers. There is a new version, DigitizerPro that has some wonderful features, including the ability to digitize any TrueType font you have on your computer. Cool! And it can digitize photos, too. Still one color, but my local dealer said the programmers are working on color!

How to finish digitizing your embroidery designs to make digital embroidery machine designs in this free sewing video taught by an expert seamstress.

Expert: Anne Beckett
Contact: www.myspace.com/annesembroiderytx
Bio: Anne Beckett is a professional embroiderer & seamstress. She has done work for such well-known directors as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater.
Filmmaker: Murlin Evans

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See How Machine Embroidery Is Done
Singer Embroidery Machine Quantum

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prefer free downloads

Dover Clip art series of books & CD-ROMs. They are Royalty Free. You might need to work on the clip art in a Graphics Program to get it ready for autodigitizing. The black & white Dover CD ROM clip art works best since their color clipart has too many dithered colors. Dover has the biggest collection of clipart for embroidery & foreign art.

The Dover Books (without CDs) are inexpensive. You could scan them.

Free Downloads sometimes are Roayalty Free. Check to see if you can resell the digitized designs from the free downloads. Upon going on these graphic free sites, just be careful of POPUPs. Sometimes they also give your PC pests– Depends on the sites.

I have a free site from Australia that I heard about from Stitches, an Australian Sewing Magazine from www.ericas.com. "LaceFairy" has free clip art that is for non-commercial use. Maybe from that site you can find some others.

It is the big Graphic sites that the POPUPs & adware are problems. The Lacefairy site seemed ok.

Besides pattern styles and motifs, you can create custom borders and monogram shapes in seconds. The example is a combination of I-Cliqq’s Symmetrical Extension capability…applied in a few clicks, your new,and continuous running shape is ready in seconds. This can be applied to create even complex shapes and still give you perfect continuous runability. No jumps..no trims..just what you need! Never be limited to just a few styles again. These functions can be applied singly or in combination as many times as you like ,and you can just continue digitizing if you like. Its simple, its fast..it gives you unlimited options just the way you like it. Why have the same collection of shapes of borders that any competitor can buy? Style is not a matter of chance.
www.i-cliqq.com

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How to import a jpeg picture for digitizing to make digital embroidery machine designs in this free sewing video taught by an expert seamstress.

Expert: Anne Beckett
Contact: www.myspace.com/annesembroiderytx
Bio: Anne Beckett is a professional embroiderer & seamstress. She has done work for such well-known directors as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater.
Filmmaker: Murlin Evans

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http://www.embroidery-machine-software.com – Demo of the new sequin deposit procedure. This new modality offer simple and powerful tools to the user.
Just select the kind of fixing stitches, the model and color of the sequin and describe the customized path.
It will be possible to select the length of the fixing stitches and a new algorithm avoid in every deposit the collision of the stitches with the sequins.
Proel is the sole company offering full compatibility with the two most used formats for the double sequins ( TBF Tajima and Barudan).
Link for download a free embroidery software trial version: http://www.embroidery-machine-software.com/download.html

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