Nothing says Summer in the USA like striking out on a road trip. We created a custom embroidery design featuring a vintage VW Bus (a well-known road warrior) on its way to adventures near and far. We provide steps for how to create it as a stand-alone patch, although it would also be excellent stitched directly onto your fabric or a finished, off-the-rack item.
Available in our S4H Etsy Shop, our On The Road Again custom design is a single embroidery file provided in your choice of EIGHT file formats: ART, EXP JEF, JEF+, JPX, PES, VIP, and VP3.
As mentioned above, this design can be stitched as a stand-alone patch as shown here or embroidered directly onto the base fabric or project of your choice.
Use the design to adorn a favorite traveling duffle or tote, embroider it onto a jacket, or simply frame it to hang in your RV or vacation cabin. Our classic S4H Safari Duffle or our Canvas Crossbody Bucket Bag – both free projects – would be fun options.
The design finishes at approximately 4” wide x 3⅝” high, which means it should fit most standard mid-range machine embroidery hoops. We used the Janome RE18 Hoop, which is 5.5” x 7”.
Along with the design in your chosen machine embroidery format, you’ll be able to download a Thread Chart showing sizing, stitch count, and color change order; as well as a full color PDF showing our recommended steps for hooping, stabilizing, and stitching a stand-alone patch. Of course, as mentioned above, you can certainly embroider directly onto your chosen fabric.
Our colorful digitized design, including the Mini Tutorial on Stabilizing + Stitching a Stand-Alone Patch, is just $4.95. If you’ve shopped with us before, you know we have continued to keep the cost of all our Etsy Shop items very affordable, while maintaining the professional, thorough instructions and the gorgeous sample photography S4H is known for throughout the sewing and craft industry. Quality for the win every time!
The designs are delivered as a PDF download that includes all the necessary information for how to access the files. Jump to our Etsy shop for additional details and to purchase.
Design: Anne Adams
Digitizing and Instructional Notes: Michele Mishler
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