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Make a monogrammed baby quilt or an embroidered "ABC" book project - each letter of the alphabet has its own subject. - A for Apples, B for Butterflies, etc. Digitized for appliqué with a three-color border.
This style is featured in "Mobile Medley" by Grace Jackson, Creative Machine Embroidery, Fall 2002.
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This appliqué monogram style is based on an Art Nouveau lettering style from the early 1900s. With wide satin stitch columns this is an easy style to use as appliqué, but also looks great without appliqué - white on white on towels. Just skip the color changes.
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Inspired by engraved wedding invitations, this two-color monogram style has an elaborate double running stitch background, different for each letter, with the letters themselves done in satin stitch. The style can be simplified by skipping the first color.
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A flowing vertical style - not too feminine, not too masculine. This satin stitch monogram style is digitized from 19th Century artwork. Good choice for linens. A very much enlarged style - 8 or 9 inches - would look great on a shower curtain or pillow.
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A rounded monogram style with a checkerboard fill pattern. A three-color design - simplify the look by sewing the fill in one color, or skip the fill entirely and use the border alone.
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A five-color monogram style - seeding stitch fill patterns with satin stitch and running stitch details - inspired by Art Deco movie posters - think "Miami Beach", Rudolf Valentino", "butter popcorn" (with real butter).
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Digitized from artwork produced in Germany in 1929, when stylish display typefaces were the seals of modernity. This monogram style is digitized for appliqué, with a running stitch for position, and a light density zig-zag stitch for tack-down. These two elements are covered by satin stitch columns. This style is equally striking in one color without the appliqué.
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A two-color 19th Century Scandinavian-inspired monogram style, with small oversewn vines and leaves on a seeding stitch fill pattern. Simplify the look by only sewing the first color.
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This monogram style is digitized from American Arts and Crafts linotype styles from the 1920s. The letters are wide satin stitch, with a thin satin stitch outline as a border. The designs can be sewn with our without the border.
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Although the artwork for this style comes from French handwork monogram patterns from the 1930s, this could just as easily be a contemporary design in a James Bond or a Kung Fu film. The letters are large and are executed in satin stitch with ample underlay to give plenty of lift. The wide satin stitch fill area has been split into two columns to provide plenty of durability and a sophisticated look.
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The voids in the one-color fill pattern create roses - the pattern is different for each letter. Large, 1930s-inspired monogram letters look wonderful on linens, garments or special projects.
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A three-color monogram style, the letter shapes are composed of blocks - sew thes out with one thread color for a different look. This style has a solid, masculine quality - an interesting variation of the conventional Athletic Block.
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Singing bluebirds on branches compose the fill pattern, with a three-color border. This monogram style is digitized for appliqué, and you can also skip over the bluebird fills to use any fabric with the decorative border.
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Suggested by a dedicated sewing enthusiast - buttons of different sizes in various groupings create these monogram letters. A must for sewing devotees! Six colors - the colors can be coordinated to match your sewing outfit.
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Digitized from artwork from 1939, this monogram set molds each letter into a circular shape. The satin stitch letters include curls and embellishments - an elegant formal style.
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This Cutwork monogram style has a harvest theme. The artwork is from 1910. The satin stitch letters have a shadowed area made of manual seed stitches with a thin satin stitch border, and a three-color wheat embellishment. The open ladderwork areas within each letter can be used with heavy-duty water soluble stabilizer for a true cutwork effect.
We have introduced color changes to extend the design capabilities, but like many of our styles this monogram would traditionally be white-on-white.
Step-by-Step instructions are provided. For those not inclined to use the cutwork option this monogram style still looks beautiful.
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The artwork for this monogram style is from 1938. It is a blend of old world (open ladderwork borders) and new world (a simple contemporary letter style).
For a true cutwork effect, use heavy-duty water soluble stabilizer. This style is just as attractive without the open ladderwork, or the borders can have a fabric insert if executed as appliqué.
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The artwork for this monogram style is French, from 1936. Each letter is cleverly adapted to create a diamond shape, and done in satin stitch. These are intended as single-initial monograms for use on napkins, linens, or fashion accessories.
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A graceful old-fashioned monogram style, designed to create three-letter combinations that form an oval shape.
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The fill pattern in this monogram style is composed of rows of flowers in alternating colors, done with satin stitch flowers and leaves, and can be used alone by skipping past the flower fills. Digitized for appliqué - 6 colors.
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A French 19th Century two-color monogram style - satin stitch letters with a double running stitch border. These letters are designed to be stacked on top of each other to create unique two-letter monograms, or use the letters individually or place them side by side. This style looks really elegant sewn tone-on-tone.
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A complex vine background, different for each letter, sets off these block monogram letters with contrasting border. This graceful 19th century style can be simplified by not sewing the first color.
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This monogram style is English, dating from about 1900. There is a very delicate vine and leaf pattern in the background, composed of thin satin stitches and bean stitches, along with two-color satin stitch flowers. The letters are a serif block style, done in satin stitch fill with a thin outline detail. The overall motif creates a square. The letters can be used alone if you wish by skipping past the background. This is a five color design, but it looks equally special sewn in all one color.
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This elaborate late 19th Century monogram style is a two-color design with leaf and vine details digitized as satin stitch and ample underlay for a rounded effect. Within the satin stitch letter borders is an unusual fill pattern composed of overlapping meandering running stitches with each individual stitch manually digitized and carefully placed. The fill simulates a hand-stitched seed stitch, and provides a luxurious texture whether executed in color or tone-on-tone.
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The artwork for this style was designed for hand embroiderers in 1879. We have adapted this very traditional monogram style for machine embroidery by adding an additional underlay column throughout, which simulates the look of padded satin stitch.
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This monogram style is from the United States, created in 1875 - one of our oldest historical styles. The letters are digitized in satin stitch.
1875 - a noteworthy year. The British government purchases the Suez Canal, Alexander Graham Bell achieves the technical breakthrough that will lead to the creation of an electric telephone, and the United States Congress passes a Civil Rights Act that guarantees blacks equal rights in public places.
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This monogram style is digitized from artwork published for hand embroiderers in 1869. The satin stitch letters are embellished with an overlapping satin stitch binding that simulates a knot. We first saw handwork examples of this style while on a research trip to the Embroiderer's Guild in England.
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Digitized for appliqué, the fill pattern for this monogram consists of rows of potted houseplants with running stitch borders and details, against a running stitch brick background pattern. The two-color satin stitch border is faux bamboo.
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This monogram style, based on artwork from 1864, is done in 3mm wide satin stitch. The elaborate intertwining loops and straight sections are reminiscent of carefully crafted architectural ironwork.
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A large classic one-color monogram style - great for towels! Brought up to date from actual 12th Century lettering styles (which did not include several letters in the modern alphabet - they weren't invented yet). This style suggests typography from the credits for black and white films about knights and maidens.
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Although the artwork for this monogram style is from the late 19th Century, and the letters would be perfectly at home in an ancient setting, they have an irresistably contemporary side - like little animated characters. The A has a bouncy optimism, the K is a little shy. Letters are filled with a manual seeding stitch, and completed with a satin stitch outline.
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It's hard to find monogram styles with very wide columns, and even harder to find them done in a traditional way - satin stitch - rather than as a flat fill pattern. The artwork for this style is from the 1940s, and we have split each column into two parts for an unusual visual effect.
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The fill pattern in each letter of this monogram is formed from signal flags from the international flag code which represent the letter. The flags have fill stitches with running stitch borders and details. Digitized for appliqué, each letter has a two-color border. Perfect for boaters (lake or ocean.)
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From the catalogue of a commercial monogram shop in the late 1930s, this modern style features satin stitch letters intended to create three-letter monograms in a slanted oval shape. The included placement design makes perfect placement of the letters quick and easy.
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This architectural monogram style is european in origin. The wide satin stitch letters feature a split satin-stitch fill pattern, with delicate satin-stitch scrollwork in the background, giving an elaborate shadow effect. The letters can easily be used alone by skipping the first color scrollwork.
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Inspired by the great typography designer J. M. Bergling (1866-1933) this fluid satin stitch nonogram style can be used with or without the brackets that complete the circular motif. Left, middle, and right versions of each letter are included, along with an additional placement template design.
A note about interlocking letters - a true interlocking three-letter monogram can only be achieved by custom digitizing. There are 17,576 possible combinations of three letters.The monogram pictured here is achieved by overlapping the letters. Where one letter passes over another, we suggest that some stitches be edited manually in your software to create the smoothest result.
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Rustic" doesn't have to mean "crude". In American architecture, country living and Art Deco styling came together in National Park Service buildings in the 1920s. This monogram style, done in satin stitch, is digitized from artwork of the period.
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This "Old English" monogram style also has some distinctly American roots. In 1939, Big Band leader Harry James discovered a kid named Frank Sinatra waiting tables and singing at a small restaurant and supper club just outside New York City on Route 9-W in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The club was The Rustic Cabin and this style was used on the menu cover.
Digitized in satin stitch, the wide areas are done with split columns and have extra underlay for additional lift.
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The fill pattern in this monogram set is composed of rows of two-color teddy bears, sitting up on two color shelves with a circular detail,and all composed of running stitches. Digitized for appliqué, it has a two-color rope border which can be used without the fill by skipping to the end of the design.
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These are decidedly modern monogram designs. This upbeat style has a musical quality - you can almost hear the beat! Wide satin stitch columns, split in half for enhanced sewing quality, are great on towels, fleece, sweaters - anything that teenagers use.
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This monogram style is perfect for sports enthusiasts, and can be used on shirts, jackets, etc. The design has a classic athletic block shape, and features a fill pattern finished with a satin stitch outline in a different color. The same design can also be used with an appliqué substituted for the fill - the digitizing begins with a running stitch, a machine stop, then a light density tack-down stitch along the letter outline. The appliquÈ option will save stitches, and can be used with the satin stitch border.
Numbers 0-9 are available for purchase in the Project Corner section.
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This monogram style is adapted from a 19th Century handwork pattern - we found the artwork in the British Library in London. The circular accents create a unique look when combined with the flowing script style. All of the elements are done in satin stitch.
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This satin stitch monogram style is large and great on linens and towels. It also looks quite modern, espite the fact that the artwork, which we found in Europe, was published in 1872 - more than 130 years ago!
Digitizing this monogram style is the subject of "Digitizing Letters for Monograms Part I" by Richards Jarden, Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine, September/October 2007.
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This monogram style, with its wide satin stitch columns and open circle embellishment, has a fresh, festive quality. The artwork is from the early 20th Century. We have used extra underlay to give the columns a special rounded look.
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