Free Hobbies, Sports & Crafts embroidery designs

Sewing mice with spools and embroidery hoops, knitting grandmas, ballet slippers, gymnasts, ice skates, chess pieces, musicians, roller skaters and school supplies — designs for celebrating a hobby, decorating a sewing room or personalising a dance or sports bag.

Gear bags, dance bags and sports kit are usually canvas, nylon or polyester, and they take embroidery well with a cut-away stabilizer and a sharp needle; avoid perforating thin nylon with a very dense fill. The sewing-themed designs make good labels and gifts for other stitchers — stitch them on a scrap of linen and turn it into a patch, a pincushion top or a needle-book cover. For ballet and gymnastics designs on stretchy leotard fabric, choose the outline-style designs over heavy fills so the fabric can still move.