Christmas Bells
Christmas Bells is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 58.5 × 54.6 mm with 1,693 stitches in 3 thread colors. Expect roughly 3 minutes of stitch-out time on a home machine. Download it below in PES format, ready to transfer to your machine.
Pattern Details
- Craft
- Machine Embroidery
- Colors
- 3
- Stitches
- 1,693
- Design Size
- 58.5 × 54.6 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~3 min
- Color Changes
- 2
- Trims
- 4
- Difficulty
- Beginner
Download Files
Free for personal stitching. Need another format (DST, JEF, EXP…)? More formats are on the way. Design License →
Stitching Color Sequence
Thread order as programmed in the file — follow along at your machine.
| # | Thread | Stitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 · Light Blue | 1,164 |
| 2 | 8 · Light Lilac | 430 |
| 3 | 18 · Cream Brown | 85 |
About This Design
This blue christmas bells with bow design stitches out at 58.5 × 54.6 mm (2.3 × 2.1 in) and uses 3 thread colors across 2 color changes. Total count is 1,693 stitches at a density of about 53.0 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~3 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 2, automatic trims: 4
- Follow the color sequence table above — thread numbers refer to the chart programmed in the file; match them to your brand by color.
Fabric & Hooping
At about 53.0 stitches/cm² this is an open, low-density fill, so it sits happily on quilting cotton, linen or lightweight shirting with a single layer of tear-away behind it. At 58.5 × 54.6 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 3 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 53 Light Blue
- 8 Light Lilac
- 18 Cream Brown
Stitching Notes
With 3 colors and 2 changes you can pre-wind the whole set before you start and never leave the machine. Being a PES file, the thread assignments come embedded, so most machines will display the color list for you.
What to Make With It
Motifs like this scatter well — single placements on pockets and yokes, or repeated across a quilt block, a set of napkins or a child's blanket. It reads the same at any orientation, so placement is forgiving.
