Free machine embroidery designs

Yes, with no account and no sign-up. Every design downloads directly in all six formats. The free account only exists to make your own files from your own images.

Paid designs, marked with their price, take more drawing and fine-tuning. They are bought one by one, with no account and no subscription, and download straight away in all six formats, with their embroidery sheet. Studio subscribers get 3 free each month, Studio+ 10. Free designs stay free.

Click the format your machine reads, under the design’s preview: PES for Brother and Baby Lock, JEF for Janome and Elna, VP3 for Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff, DST for industrial machines, EXP for Melco and Bernina, HUS for older Husqvarna. The file lands in your downloads: copy it to the USB stick or send it to the machine.

PES. The Brother machines page explains transfer by USB stick, cable or Artspira.

Yes: “Customise in the studio” opens the full design, object by object. Change the size, thread colours, density and text, or add a border. The stitches are recalculated for the size you choose.

Yes, but in the studio rather than by resizing the file on the machine: a scaled file keeps its original stitches, the density changes and the embroidery distorts. In the studio, the stitches are rebuilt for the new size.

The designs fit a 100 × 100 mm (4 × 4 in) hoop, the most common one. The exact size, stitch count and stitching time are shown under each preview.

Open “Name frame” in the studio, select the text and type the name: the embroidery is recalculated at once. For a whole batch of names in one go, that is the series feature of the Atelier+ plan.

Yes, in series too: garments, bags, linen, gifts. Only the files themselves must not be resold or passed on as your own.

On canvas, cotton or linen, a tear-away stabiliser is enough. On knit, jersey or sweatshirt fabric, use a cut-away stabiliser. If in doubt about the density, run the file through the file check.

Each design is set up for embroidery: tight tatami fills, compensated satin columns, underlay beneath solid areas, tie-offs and trims where they belong. That is what separates a file that stitches well from a hastily converted picture, and it is the same process used when you stitch your own image.