Description
About this Machine Embroidery Design:
Make an adorable fabric football in the hoop on your embroidery machine! This fast and easy project features embroidered 3D laces and comes in multiple sizes for 4x4 hoops and up! Customize with a name, team colors to make the perfect fun gift for the sports fan in your life. Made in only two hoopings.
Size Information:
4x4 makes a 4" football
5x7 makes a 7" football
6x10 makes a 10" football
8x8 makes a 8" football
8x12 makes a 12" football
10x14 makes a 14" football
Supplies:
Scissors
Embroidery Machine
Medium Weight Tear Away Stabilizer
Water Soluable Topper Material
Minky, Fleece or cotton wovens
Scotch Tape
Temporary Spray Adhesive
Needle and Thread
Optional: 2mm to 5mm thick White Craft Foam
Digital embroidery design download for embroidery machines. Lifetime access after purchase to this design in 9 different file formats. After purchase, your downloads are stored in your account order history for repeat access. Designed with love by Planet Applique Inc using no clipart, hand drawn by our in house digitizing artist.
Formats:
Our embroidery machine formats include:
DST
EXP
HUS
JEF
PES
SEW
VIP
VP3
XXX
You will receive all the sizes and all of the embroidery machine formats with your purchase, so that if you ever upgrade your machine, or change brands, there is no need to re-purchase past embroidery designs from our website. We give you everything you need regardless or format or size with every design we offer on our website.
Basic applique instructions for our simple stitch embroidery designs are as follows:
1) The Red lines show you where to place your applique fabric pieces, and the colored lines will stitch the fabric in place. For best results, we recommend using a light weight fusible interfacing on the back side of applique fabric pieces used in an embroidery design. An example of this would be heat-n-bond lite.
2) After each fabric piece is stitched down, you will then use small curved scissors to trim very close to the tack down line to remove excess fabric.
3) Repeat this for each piece of fabric in the design.
4) Lastly, you might have some embroidery elements to stitch out, like eyes, mouth, or wording. We combine colors logically so reduce the number of times you will have to change out your thread color. For example, if the design is of a kitty cat, we would combine the inside of the ear with the nose of the cat making them both pink. It is possible, however, to stop your machine after one element and change the thread should you rather have the kitty cat nose be brown, for instance.
We follow this general template for creating our designs so that you are getting all the fabric down at the beginning and can relax and do other things while the majority of the stitching is being done toward the end. We feel this is the most efficient use of your time embroidering.
Basic applique instructions for our sketch filled embroidery designs are as follows:
1) There is no fabric used in these types of designs, only thread.
2) Stitch each color of the design to complete it.
3) Similiar elements are often combined when its logical to do so to reduce the number of thread changes.
4) The stitching on our sketch filled embroidery designs are low density to reduce time and materials. They are not totally filled in with a lot of stitching like many other embroidery designs available online. The stitching is still sufficient to make your design stand out on your project.
About Sizing
Because our embroidery designs come in multiple sizes, we do not recommend resizing our designs. Resizing a design can result in unpredictable results. When you resize a design, for example a PES file, and make it smaller, the thread count will not change proportionately. Some machine will try to fit the same number of stitches but now in a smaller footprint which can result in strange jumping, alignment issues, thread breakage, tension issues and needle breaks. The same issues can occur if you make an embroidery design larger. Embroidery designs are not vectorized. They cannot be enlarged or shrunk down and still stitch out in the same quality as was originally digitized. And this is why our embroidery designs come in multiple sizes. We try to do most of the work for you so that you have several sizes to choose from depending on your project but without the work and worry of trying to resize it yourself.
Free Embroidery Designs:
If you would like to try out one of our designs, we offer free embroidery designs on our website and offer free designs on our homepage monthly. Be sure to keep an eye out for these free machine embroidery designs so you can build up your library.
