Back-to-school embroidery designs
School embroidery designs for the first day and every day after: pencils, yellow school buses, backpacks and red apples. Download free designs in PES, DST, JEF or VP3, or choose a premium one with more detail.
Nylon backpacks pucker easily, so stitch them on a sticky cut-away stabilizer with a sharp needle.
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These school embroidery designs are made for back-to-school: a pencil on a pencil case, a bus on a book bag, an apple on a lunch bag, a backpack on the first-day shirt. Most school gear is nylon, canvas or polyester twill. Canvas book bags take a tear-away or cut-away depending on density, while nylon and coated fabrics need a cut-away to stop puckers, and because needle holes stay visible on coated fabric, test the design on a scrap first.
If you sew pencil cases and lunch bags yourself, embroider the outer panel before assembly, because a finished bag with a lining is hard to hoop. A 70 mm pencil fits a polo shirt chest or a pencil case; take 125 mm for the flap of a book bag.
A name keeps a bag from getting lost, and you can create one with the monogram maker. For end-of-year gifts, browse the teacher designs.