Food & drink embroidery designs

Fruit, vegetables, sweets and baking

Bright fruit designs bring strawberries, cherries, lemons, watermelon slices and pineapples, while the vegetable designs add carrots, avocados, tomatoes and peas for gardeners and cooks. Cupcakes, donuts, ice cream cones and candy are in the sweets and desserts, and croissants, bread loaves, pies, whisks and rolling pins in the baking designs.

Drinks and fast food

Cocktail glasses, lemonade and smoothies are among the drink and cocktail designs, made for napkins and bar towels. For fun tees and kids' bags, the fast food designs offer pizza slices, tacos, burgers and fries.

Stacked foods show how these food and drink embroidery designs are digitized. In a burger, each layer of bun, lettuce, cheese and patty has its own outline, sewn in tiers so the joins between the layers look clean, and small toppings such as sprinkles, seeds and pepperoni sew last, on top of their base fill.

Kitchen linens: fabrics, stabilizers and placement

Flour-sack dish towels are thin, so back them with a mesh cut-away or a light tear-away and hoop them firmly. Waffle-weave and terry towels need a water-soluble topping, so the stitches do not sink into the texture. Aprons in canvas or twill take a tear-away for light designs and a cut-away for dense ones.

Fold a towel the way you hang it, then center the motif on the visible panel, a little above the hem. On an apron, the bib works best, or a pocket piece if you stitch it before it is sewn on; on napkins, use one corner.

Sizes and seasonal ideas

A 70 mm cherry pair fits a napkin corner, a 95 mm coffee cup suits a mug rug in a 4x4 hoop, and a 125 mm pie from the 5x7 hoop fills the bib of an apron.

Summer brings fruit, lemonade and ice cream, fall brings pies and bread, and Christmas cookie gifts are worth starting in October. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, check its date in your country and plan pies and harvest vegetables a few weeks ahead.