free embroidery designs

We have free embroidery designs to download in most home embroidery machine formats.  We don't have lots of free embroidery designs patterns downloads for samples but the ones that we do have are better than just being free designs. Our free embroidery patterns downloads are much better than just being free, in fact they will give you something that is hard to find at any price; easy, trouble free embroidery sewing that makes embroidery a lot more enjoyable.  All of our embroidery designs are artistically created with details to be life-like and unique and still sew out easily and without problems.

There is a big difference in the way embroidery designs patterns sew out because of how the designs files were digitized (made).  All designs should have a foundation, underlayment stitches that sews before the design itself, to help stabilize the fabric.  These underlayment stitches are put in so that the stitches on top have a minimum stretching effect on the fabric, so stabilizing will be easier. - this takes careful planning as one needs to know what top stitches are needed to make the design and what stretching effect this will have on the finished design pattern and fabric. The goal is to put the underlayment in so that the top thread art will have no or very little effect on the fabric. (no puckering, no cupping or off outlines or miss-aligned parts)  Without proper underlayment, it is almost impossible for a design to sew out well, even with the best of stabilizing.

 Another important consideration for sewing ease is thread changes and jump stitches. Skill and careful planning is necessary to eliminate all unnecessary jump stitches and thread changes. So choose your embroidery designs well and avoid the disappointment and frustrations of trying to use poor designs.   Even free designs can cost a lot more in time, garments, frustrations and disappointment that a purchased quality one - there really is no comparison in the pleasure you will have while sewing quality embroidery designs patterns and other designs that are not digitized well.

 A free embroidery designs download is available in many of our collections on this web site, please download some free samples and sew them out!  You can browse the text files in Windows Explorer to see the stitch directions / thread colors, just double click on the text file and it will open in note pad.

 Our embroidery files can be downloaded or furnished on CD disks in these machine embroidery formats: art for Artista, pes for Brother / Deco / Baby lock, jef  and sew for Janome / Elna / New Home, hus for Husqvarna / Viking, pcs for Phaff, 3x for Singer and dst formats for both commercial and home craft sewing machines.

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  Many new home embroidery machine owners have to learn on their own with little instructions and thus have to resort to the "trial and error" methods to get satisfactory results.  One can learn certainly learn to embroidery this way but it takes time, money and patience.  I have found that one gets better embroidery results consistently in direct proportion to using the right methods and good supplies and eliminating all unknown variables that may cause a problem.  The key is to consistently use good embroidery products that won't cause problems with quality embroidery designs.

 The problem is to know what the bad variables are, and how to eliminate them.  Here is an example of what I am saying - for this example,  we will assume that your embroidery machine is in good working order,  that you have learned the embroidery basics and are using the correct embroidery stabilizer methods and have good quality polyester embroidery thread and stabilizers.  So you sew out a design and the results aren't too bad, an outline that is off a little and there are a few parts that don't line up exactly.  So what now?  Do you add stabilizer or adjust the tension or just settle for good enough?  If you knew that all was right, as we assumed, then you would know that it was an embroidery design problem - because we eliminated all the other variables for our trial.  With one variable, it is easy to know and correct the problem, with two it is much harder and with three or more it is very difficult to get the right combination for good results.