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    Old 12-27-2013, 05:21 AM
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    Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I am looking for some simple free embroidery patterns for snowmen for next years Xmas quilts.
    I have googled different combinations, but always end up with embroidery machine patterns that cost lots, and am really just wanting to do some redwork type embroidery.
    Any clues or hints on where to go? Free would be best......thanks for your help!!!
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    Old 12-27-2013, 05:55 AM
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    Rather hesitantly I will say take a look at Sewforum.com. They have thousands of designs that have been contributed by digitizers. The reason I provide some warning is that some of the digitizers are really good and some are really, really bad! If you know how to "preview" a design and understand the basics of a good design, you can find some nice things for free, but buyer beware!

    Personally I prefer to buy from reputable individual digitizers. Many designs are only $2-5 and they will sew well. If you post on the ISO area of sewforum, you can get some good recommendations.

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    Old 12-27-2013, 06:03 AM
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    I was looking for Snowmen for hand done redwork and couldn't find much there either.
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    Here are a few links to some snowmen. Hope this helps.

    http://primitiveblessings.com/shop/f...prod_1338.html

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/alepe_a...n/photostream/

    http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/or...a0ad9ae0df.jpg
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    Old 12-27-2013, 06:23 AM
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    I purchase a lot from emblibiary.com. They sew out beautiful and you can purchase 1 pattern. If you register with site on your birthday they send you a gift coupon. And they have 1 cent sales a lot
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    Old 12-27-2013, 06:23 AM
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    Try embroidery library.com or pixis rule.com
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    Old 12-27-2013, 06:25 AM
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    Try googling hand embroidery patterns. I did and came up with several sites. This one has lots! http://www.embroiderypatterncentral....y-seasonal.php
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    Old 12-27-2013, 06:32 AM
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    Originally Posted by lb70542
    I purchase a lot from emblibiary.com. They sew out beautiful and you can purchase 1 pattern. If you register with site on your birthday they send you a gift coupon. And they have 1 cent sales a lot
    Even if you don't purchase a lot, get on their email list. they have lots of sales and you can often get designs for just a dollar or two. As some of the other posters have implied, you really do get what you pay for. Sometimes the free designs stitch out badly.
    They also have different sales every week. Here's this week's. I really don't think you can go wrong for $1.25. These are beautifully digitized!
    http://www.emblibrary.com/EL/Sale.aspx
    One last tip, look thru their embroideries and add the ones you like to your wish list. They periodically have sales on everything on your list.
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    I picked up some cute snowmen hot iron transfers for tea towels at Walmart a couple of weeks ago for less than a dollar. 7 ea. days of the week patterns (that part can be left off). Each transfer can be used several times. I had planned to make some crayon colored blocks with them. Later, I said to self...Hmm...white snowmen on white blocks probably won't work out very well.

    So....If you'd like, PM your mailing address to me and I'll send them along to you.
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    Old 12-27-2013, 07:04 AM
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    Keep looking – it seems like all I ever find on blogs and websites is redwork snowmen, which don't really do anything for me since I live in sunny California!
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