Camping and outdoor embroidery ideas
Good camping and outdoor embroidery projects are matching camp or family reunion shirts, hiking beanies, patches for backpacks, scout gifts and cabin pillows. A tent, a mountain range or a campfire at 3 to 4 inches suits most of them; on beanies, keep the design about 2 inches tall.
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Family reunion shirts
A campfire on the chest with the family name and year.
Left chest: about 3.5 × 2.25 in
Get the free campfire design - 2
Hiking beanie
Mountains on the cuff of a knit beanie.
Beanie cuff: about 3.5 × 1.4 in
Get the free mountains design - 3
Backpack patch
The tent stitched on twill with a satin border, sewn on.
Size: 3 in
Get the free tent design - 4
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- On beanies use a water-soluble topping so stitches sit on top of the knit.
- Make patches on stiff twill and attach them with stitching, not just iron-on.
- Earthy thread on oatmeal or olive fabric looks rugged.
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What can I embroider for camping and the outdoors?
Good camping and outdoor embroidery projects are matching camp or family reunion shirts, hiking beanies, patches for backpacks, scout gifts and cabin pillows. A tent, a mountain range or a campfire at 3 to 4 inches suits most of them; on beanies, keep the design about 2 inches tall.
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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