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Quality Embroidery Since 1958
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Always Embroider Smooth-Running Designs
Imagine the breath-taking creations you could make for your friends, family, or even just yourself with access to close to 30,000 embroidery designs, new weekly releases, and easy to follow video tutorials at your fingertips…
Now Stop Imagining and Start Creating With The Embroidery Legacy Design Club!
You’ve Likely Seen Our Designs Featured and Sold On:
Don’t You Love That Feeling You Get
Thousands of Embroidery Designs, Endless Creations
Before the Embroidery Legacy Design Club, it could be time-consuming, costly, and downright frustrating to create that perfect design
If you’ve ever wasted your time looking for designs online only to end up empty-handed, or even worse, with a low-quality design that causes issues on your machine, then you know how difficult it can be to find designs that you not only love but also look just as beautiful stitched out as they did on the screen. These designs might be free, and attractive- but they are rarely (if ever) digitized properly, which means you’ll be stuck with a design that is downright embarrassing to look at. Free designs can be enticing, but you’re really just playing “Embroidery Roulette” every time you download an untrustworthy design. Don’t let these poorly digitized designs take away your pride or love of embroidery.
Enjoy Endless, High-Quality Embroidery Designs
At The Click of a Button
Enjoy the freedom of choosing your designs! We know that other embroidery design clubs exist, but often they only send you a few pre-selected designs a month– talk about no fun! That’s why with the Embroidery Legacy Design Club, you will always have the power to decide what you want to create when you want to create it!
Since 1958 our family has worked to perfect the art of beautiful smooth-running embroidery designs. Whether you’re into lace, applique, in-the-hoop designs, or virtually anything else,
Take a moment to click through some of the many categories you’ll have access to once you become a Legacy Design Club Member:
Want To Know
Introducing the Embroidery Legacy Design Club Membership
Now, Making
1. Join
You’ll choose from three high-value membership options
2. Download & Embroider
Embroidery has never been easier! Thanks to the decades of experience we have in the industry, you’ll always get a properly digitized design ready to be embroidered immediately! No more frustrating bird nests, thread breaks, or babysitting your machine– from the moment your needle hits the fabric, you’ll see quality in every stitch.
3. Impress
Whether you are wanting to make a gift for a special someone, try out a new project-or- you’re wanting to spruce up something you own…
With Your Membership, You’ll Confidently Make High-Quality, Breath-Taking
Depending on the membership you choose, you can download between 5 to 50 designs each month.
“I have joined the Enthusiast Members club so I can download Embroidery Legacy’s fab designs. They sew out beautifully every time. Creativity is at full speed here at the Awang Embroidery Department which is, by the way my basement, which I have turned into my little craft oasis. I am a very lucky girl. Thanks again John for bringing embroidery into my everyday.”
– Lynn Awang
Now, you might be thinking, “With so many designs to choose from, where do I even start?”
Don’t worry,
This video will walk you through the process of finding and downloading designs:
Ready for Immediate Access to Thousands of Designs That Are Sure To Impress and Make Your Embroidery Stand Out?
Choose the membership that works best for you- no matter what you’ll save at least 72% off retail value:
(you won’t be able to upgrade or downgrade your membership, so choose wisely)
| Occasional Sticher | Embroidery Enthusiast | Embroidery Addict | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly Price | $67 | $137 | $267 |
| Points Per Month | 5 ($237 value) | 20 ($948 value) | 50 ($2370 value) |
| Premium Legacy Design Downloads Per Year | X | 5 ($64.75 value) | 18 ($233.10 value) |
| Savings on Retail Value | Save 72% | Save 85% | Save 90% |
| Become a Member | Become a Member | Become a Member |
All Three Memberships Give You Access to:
✔️ Easy-to-follow project video tutorials
✔️ New weekly design releases
How Do We Convert Monthly Download Points
Into Marvellous, Top-Notch Designs?
99% of the designs on our site cost only 1 point. These include:
- free-standing lace,
- applique,
- regular-in-the-hoop,
- mylar and dozens of other categories.
However, a few of our specialty designs require 5 points, as it took a considerable amount of time to create each one of them. These categories are:
ESA Font Sets
These keyboard font sets load directly into your Hatch or Wilcom E series embroidery software. They are all full sets of letters that include A through Z. They also include ESA Glyphs, monograms, flexi-fills and more. We have the world’s largest collection of close to 1000 ESA fonts.
Premium In-the-Hoop Projects
Want beautiful 3D embroidery projects that are both easy to create and stand out? Look no further than our premium in-the-hoop projects! Each premium project includes a step-by-step video tutorial that holds your hand every step of the way to make creating these stunning designs as easy as possible.
How Are Bonus Premium Legacy Downloads Different
From Regular Designs?
Choose an Embroidery Enthusiast or Addict membership now to also get access to the exclusive
While these stunning designs are
Most of these breath-taking designs range in sizes to fit a 5×7′′
Many of these designs were originally released in October 2018 to mark our family’s 60th year in the embroidery industry.
It Only Gets Better Every Month
Keep Your Creativity Flowing And Your Machine Sewing Without Getting Bored Or Running Out Of New Creative Project Options!
Unlike other memberships you’ve seen, we don’t limit you to a specific list of designs each month. With your Embroidery Legacy Design Club Membership, you’ll always have access to
Enjoy New Weekly Design Releases
Follow Monthly Project Video Tutorials
Get Recommendations and Inspiration For Your Designs
Not All Embroidery Designs Are Created Equal
Want an embroidery design that stands out? A design with life-like features that’s soft to the touch and makes your machine sing?
Make your embroidery stand out with an Embroidery Legacy Design Club Membership
Have you ever tried sewing a random design you found online on your machine but kept getting tread breaks, bird-nests, and overall just ended up frustrated, so you gave up? In most cases, the problem isn’t your machine, the thread, or the stabilizer, and usually, it’s not even your fault!
The issue is that not all embroidery designs are created equal.
Some designs available online may look beautiful on screen, but when you stitch them out, you run into tons of issues.
With over
Thousands of People Love Their Membership
Here’s what just a few have said…
“As soon as my machine starting stitching out my first design from John Deer’s Embroidery Legacy I could tell the difference.
I remember just watching in awe as the design took shape, there was something different, there was a smoothness in the way that it came together, every stitch was perfect, the density was spot on. It was just a simple floral design that I was putting down the legs of my trousers but it stood out over all the other designs that I had stitched out and received the most comments from others when I wore them, the flowers almost came to life.
I rave over his designs to every one of my embroidery friends and have no hesitation in recommending John Deer designs as I find them so superior to anything else that I have stitched.“
– Robyn Sage
“Being a member of the Design Club gave me a chance to have high quality designs at a very affordable price. Every design I have stitched out has been flawless and the instructions are easy to follow. I have recommended this site to fellow embroiderers and will recommend the Club to anyone thinking about purchasing an embroidery machine to give them the confidence of making beautiful designs“
– Pam Ewing
“Very few companies can compete with the reliability of the Embroidery Legacy designs.
The designs are beautiful (the traditional lace is superlative but there are other lovely flowers and heirloom techniques too). AND, there are cute baby appliqués fit for onesies, quilts, and more. Not all are pretty or cute, as John can get some comic ideas and/or manly-man hunting/sports stuff. There is just so much at the one site you don’t need to check others for the perfect design.
Friends I have ‘taken’ to the Embroidery Legacy website have been instantly excited and impressed—and happy about the pricing too. I have gotten lots of ‘friend points’ for introducing them to these high quality designs.“
– Sunny Villaescusa
You May Have Noticed Some People Charge Extra For Sub-Par Designs That Look Great On The Screen But Are A Total Nightmare On Your Machine. We Don’t Think That’s Right.
The Deer’s Embroidery Legacy Story:
Originally created by John Deer’s grandparents in the 1950s
Over the span of 40 years,
In the mid-1990s commercial embroidery production shifted overseas and away from North America. Out of necessity, John transformed the company into a commercial digitizing production house.
Throughout the late 1990s & early 2000s, John Deer’s Embroidery Legacy
This time, John Deer’s Embroidery Legacy moved away from the commercial embroidery market and redirected its focus towards home embroiderers with the name John Deer’s Adorable Ideas. For roughly a decade Adorable Ideas crafted a database of close to 30,00 quality embroidery designs, numerous educational series and ran thousands of live embroidery events across the world.
Now rebranded as Embroidery Legacy to honor our roots, we offer thousands of embroidery designs, Hatch embroidery software, online education, tools, live events, and more.
It’s no mystery… Quality embroidery is our history
Feast Your Eyes on Some of the Stunning Designs Our Members Have Made Over The Years
Once you choose your membership level
Plus, if you are ever stuck you will have countless YouTube tutorial videos, peer support in the Facebook Group, and weekly blog posts to help you along!
Your Design Club Questions, Answered:
We provide design formats for all popular machine brands: art, dst, emb, exp, hus, jef, pes, shv, vip, vp3, and xxx.
We believe that creativity shouldn’t be limited! With any membership level (Silver, Gold, or Diamond) you will always have access to our design catalog with close to 30,000 designs- any of which you can choose to use, whenever you want as long as you have downloads remaining for the month. Additionally, right now if you choose Gold or Diamond level memberships, you will also have access to our Large Legacy Design Collection which is perfect for creating jacket backs, pillows, quilts, wall hangings, and more.
Yes! Any designs you download within your 1-year membership you get to keep even after your membership expires.
Just like a cell phone plan or gym membership, if you don’t use your membership one month, the points do not carry over into the next month. In other words, there is no “rollover.” However, if you didn’t download your allotted number of designs one month, you’re still getting a fantastic deal!
You cannot sell the design files you download on our website or put the design files into a design & sell that digital file as your own. However, you may sell embroidered physical goods and items that have our designs on them in quantities up to 50 items per order. This means that if you run a small business and get an order, you can use our designs for that order as long as you are not creating more than 50 embroidered items at once within that order. There is no limit on the number of orders each design can be used for. For more information on selling our designs, please refer to our terms & conditions.
No, your membership does not operate off of a calendar month. Instead your membership operates based off of the day in which you joined. So if you started your membership on the 15th, 1 month would count as the 15th of that month until the 15th of the next month.