Free Hand Embroidery Patterns - Index
Do you want to embroider, but find it difficult to narrow down a pattern? Does pattern-design take up too much time for you? Are you always looking for new embroidery patterns to add to your library? Here are some favorite hand embroidery patterns - and they're free! Many of these come from out-of-print, old catalogs. They are in the "copyright free" category. I want to make them available to you so that you can enjoy creating beautiful embroidered goods.
I'll be updating the list as I get the graphics ready, so check back often! Add yourself to the site feed via e-mail or via feedreader, for easy notifications of updates.
I'll be updating the list as I get the graphics ready, so check back often! Add yourself to the site feed via e-mail or via feedreader, for easy notifications of updates.
- Hand Embroidery Patterns (General Categories)
- Monograms for Hand Embroidery - Free patterns for decorative initials from vintage publications
- Ecclesiastical Embroidery Patterns Patterns for church-related embroidery.
- Online Resources - links to sites with free embroidery patterns
Labels: free embroidery patterns
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Friday, June 16, 2006
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Hi there! I'm new to embroidery and just found your site. It is very helpful and I want to thank you for that. I do have a question, though. What is the best way to transfer patterns to material?
Thanks,
Trish
Arvada, CO
I am looking for angel hand embroidery patterns. Does anyone know of sites that have them? Kathi House topkat@smarttechllc.com
Hi, Kathi - I emailed you one - hope it's useful!
i am looking for patterns for embroidery on polka dots. Can anyone help?
ThankYou for these great patterns!!
I appreciate so much finding patterns that aren't copyrighted, and I enjoy these historical motifs. I'd love to know when and where they came from, and what source. Could you please consider letting us know these on future patterns?
This is a great website. I'll be checking back! :D
Blessings
hi iam looking for cute embroidery patterns like angels for baby stuff.can u help me plz
iam looking for the tutorial of stamen stitch in hand embroidery .can u help me plz
Hi,
I am looking for angel hand patterns.Please can you mail it to me at alicia_amith@yahoo.com ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Aly.
Hmm... I'm not really sure what you mean? Perhaps "praying hands"? If so, you could take this image and reduce or enlarge it and trace it:
Praying hands
I am looking for Amish style embroidery line art..I am hoping you may help. I just found your site and am exploring..thanks so much. Hugs, Dee
Wow! You have a lot of great patterns on here! Thank you for sharing :) God Bless ~ Deb
These are great. I only have the problem of being such a beginner that I have to be told what stitches to use and what colors!
I also wish there was a way to take a cross stitch pattern and change it to freestyle, y'know?
Thanks!
Dawn - ilovedobermans!
I know exactly what you mean, Dawn!!! Glad you like the patterns. The nice thing about free style surface embroidery is that you can use whatever colors you want, however you want to use them! Experiment! The more familiar you get with stitches and threads, the more you'll settle into what you like best.
Have fun with it!!
Mary
I'm doing a Christmas quilt for my son's wedding. We want to embroider starbursts, poinsettias, or other Christmas theme pictures similar to the style shown on your website. We're doing 12 blocks for the quilt. I'm having trouble finding anything that will work. Do you have any ideas? Jana
Hi. I'm looking for some chanuka patterns to embroider onto tablecloths. Does anyone know where I can find the transfers or the stamped tablecloths with chanuka designs???
I am looking for some young hip embroidery patterns for things I am making for my nephew and daughter. Anyone have any suggestions?
i just thought i would tell you that i have took the letters v, c , n and o from one of your patterns and i have had them tattoed onto my body i loved them so much! thank you !
I am looking for a hand embroidery pattern with ferns and violets on it. Any help would be appreciated. Many Thanks!!!
Hi, Suzy - I don't have a fern-and-violet pattern, but you know what you could try? Dover! If you google Dover publishers, take a look at their books. They have many inexpensive books with botanical drawings in them. To get both ferns and violets in the same design, you might have to trace and combine some pictures, but I bet you'd be able to find something....
Another thought, too - Clip Art, Etc. has a nice searchable feature. You may be able to search "fern" and "violet" and come up with some images you can combine.
Hope that helps!
MC
Hi to all, i`m glad to have such informative site for embroidery, I need some patterns for like, frames, wall hangings, cushions.
( it could be like some flowers)
can any one help me please..
TC.
Regards,
Aisha Iqbal
To answer a post from two years ago! I find "the light box" the best way to transfer a design...
this can be either pressing your paper and fabric against the window with the sunlight behind it...(needs manovouring, but great for emergencies),
or a torch under a glass table, with the fabric once again over the design, which is ofcourse on a single sheet of paper, NOT THE BOOK, so the light can shine through...
I use a find ball point pen, to draw the outlines..does not smug or leave traces. but needs accuracy, as it is not washable!
you can also make a lightbox, for those who are transfering alot...
a bulb built into a wooden box, with a glass or perspex cover. be sure to provide ventilation holes!
have fun!
(remember lady Di's dress against the sunlight, when she was 19, and posing for the photographers for the first time at her work....well, that is the general idea. using light to outline.
so, in tribute to Lady Di, I wish you wonderful creative moments.)
I'm new at this and would love to do a sampler. The kind I'm thinking about is with the school house in the middle and the alphabet surrounding it. Could anyone help me to find a pattern? Thanks
From diane,
Does any one know what stitch was used to make the fine strands on the peacock feathers used on marie antoinettes dress or other similar period pieces.
The stitches seem to be extremely tiney ...I c, only guess
I am also quite new to embroidery and to maintain my interest I wanted to find a pattern to hold my imagination. I found that 'googling' "line drawings" and the subject matter I was looking for produced hundreds of good results and many of them not copyrighted.
Thank you for your great website. I did needle punch embroidery in the 80's and even taught it through my own yarn company. I wanted to start embroidery again and your site has been one of the best and informative sites I have come across. Thank you for all the work you have put into it.
Someone mentioned wanting "young, hip" embroidery patterns, so I just wanted to suggest www.sublimestitching.com. That's about as young and hip as you can get! Its really a fun site. I also wanted to say that I've had HOURS of fun downloading your patterns and I'll have HOURS of fun stitching them as well! :-)
I want patterns of bullion roses and rose buds please send me.
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