Birthday embroidery ideas
Popular birthday embroidery projects are a birthday shirt with the child's name and age, party favor bags, a first-birthday bib, a reusable gift bag and a keepsake pillow. A cake with candles, balloons or a wrapped gift at 3 to 4 inches suits most of them, and adding the name or number makes each one personal.
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Birthday shirt with the age
The cake on the chest with the age stitched underneath.
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First-birthday bib
A smaller cake centered on a bib for photos.
Size: 2.5–3 in
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Reusable gift bag
A gift box on a canvas bag that replaces wrapping paper.
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Keepsake pillow
Balloons with the name and date on a cushion cover.
Size: 5 in
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Birthday crown or sash
A small gift box on a felt crown band or sash.
Size: 2–3 in
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Before you stitch
- Stitch the name or age with the text tool, then join it to the design with the combiner.
- On kids' tees use a soft cut-away and a ballpoint needle.
- Make the shirts a week early so there's time for a test sew-out.
Make it personal
Add a name in one of 12 lettering styles, a monogram, or turn your own drawing, logo or photo into a ready-to-sew file.
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What can I embroider for a birthday?
Popular birthday embroidery projects are a birthday shirt with the child's name and age, party favor bags, a first-birthday bib, a reusable gift bag and a keepsake pillow. A cake with candles, balloons or a wrapped gift at 3 to 4 inches suits most of them, and adding the name or number makes each one personal.
Where can I get the designs?
Every design on this page is in the free design library, ready in DST, PES, JEF and other formats with a free account. To use your own artwork or a logo, upload it to the digitizer.
How do I add a name to a design?
Make the name with the text to embroidery tool in a style that suits the design, at the size the lettering size calculator suggests, and stitch it under or beside the design.
What size should the design be?
Each idea lists the usual size. The embroidery size chart has the details for every placement, and the hoop pages show the largest design each hoop sews.
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