Christmas machine embroidery designs: vintage Heirloom Christmas

Drawn like an antique Christmas card

Every design in the Heirloom Christmas line is carved in fine engraved lines, the way Victorian Christmas cards were printed, with the light parts left as bare fabric. Under each picture, the word is hand-lettered in a vintage script, not set in a font, and stitched in smooth satin.

Up to four sizes in every lettered design

• 8 × 12 in hoop: up to about 7.5 in wide, for a sweatshirt front.
• 6 × 10 and 5 × 7 in hoops: with the lettering, for pillows, totes and tea towels.
• 4 × 4 in hoop: the picture alone, for stockings, ornaments, napkins and kids' clothes.

Each size is digitized at its own size, not scaled. Which hoop do I need?

Make it personal

The Heirloom Wreath Monogram Frame leaves its center open: add an initial, a family name or a year with your machine's own lettering, and it becomes a gift for a stocking, a pillow or a tree skirt.

Try one free

The glass ornament, the holly sprig and the snowflake are free with just your email. Stitch one out and see how the line runs on your machine before you buy the rest, from $0.99 a design. More in free machine embroidery designs and embroidery designs for sweatshirts.

Stitching tips

Cream, white, oatmeal and heather gray sweatshirts show the engraving best. Use a cut-away stabilizer on sweatshirts and knits, a firm tear-away on linen and canvas, and stitch the gold in metallic thread for an extra-special finish. Every download includes a production sheet with Madeira Polyneon codes in stitching order.

Quick makes and gifts

For a stack of gifts in an evening, start with the simple Christmas designs that stitch in 10 to 20 minutes in a 4 × 4 hoop, then turn them into embroidered Christmas ornaments. For something bigger, see Christmas pillow embroidery designs: which size fits a 16 or 18 in cover, and how to sew it up.

Something else in mind?

Your family's name in script, your own artwork or your shop's logo? We digitize custom designs: with the free trial your first one is free, and after that each one is $10 at any size.