Christmas Napkin Corner and Fir Branches Machine Embroidery Design Set – 5 Sizes

This is a digital machine embroidery design set for Christmas napkins and a fabric napkin holder cover. It includes two coordinated designs: compact fir sprigs with red berries and a snowflake, plus an asymmetric Christmas corner with evergreen branches, holly, berries and a snowflake.

The set contains 10 prepared files: five sizes of each design. The small sprig composition works on a napkin holder cover, guest towel or the centre of a small napkin. The corner is made for the edge of a napkin, table runner or placemat.

What Is Included in the Digital Set

Sizes, Stitches and Recommended Hoops

Design 1 — Fir Sprigs, Berries and Snowflake

Design 2 — Christmas Napkin Corner

For the largest corner, rotate the file by 90° in the machine if this is required by your hoop orientation.

Formats: .dst, .jef, .pec, .vip, .hus, .pes, .exp, .sew, .dat, .vp3, .xxx

Coordinating Christmas Designs for Napkins and Table Linen

Pine Cones on Holly

Christmas Poinsettia Borders

NOEL Christmas Corner

Madeira Classic 40 Color Chart

The swatches show the working shades from the color chart. Always make a test embroidery on your own fabric before starting the final item.

Design 1: 1397 → 1037 → 1004.

Design 2: 1397 → 1369 → 1037 → 1340 → 1257 → 1037 → 1004. Do not merge the repeated red thread change: it is required for the correct stitching sequence.

How to Embroider on Linen and Napkins

Fabric and Shrinkage

For napkins, use stable linen or cotton-linen in the 150–220 g/m² range, or dense non-stretch cotton. Before embroidering, wash, dry and press the fabric using the same care method planned for the finished item.

On open-weave or porous linen, stitch a full test first. The fir needles, berries and fine branches should sit on the surface rather than sink between the threads of the cloth.

Stabilizer

For a linen napkin, begin with Madeira Cotton Soft tear-away stabilizer. Use Madeira Cotton Stable if the cloth shifts; use Madeira Weblon Plus for a very thin or unstable base.

Starting formula: fabric weight in g/m² ÷ 3 = the total weight of the backing stabilizer. For 180 g/m² linen, use about 60 g/m² of support. This is the combined weight of the backing layers, not the weight of each layer.

Topping, Needle and Puckering

A water-soluble topping is not needed on smooth linen. Place Madeira Avalon Film on top of terry cloth, fleece, velvet or another pile surface so the small details do not disappear into the pile.

Begin with a new 75/11 embroidery needle. For coarse, dense linen, use an 80/12 after a successful test. Hoop the fabric and stabilizer flat without stretching. If the fabric puckers, do not increase the upper-thread tension first: check the stabilizer, needle and hooping instead.

Helpful Answers

Are these two different designs?

Yes. The set includes compact sprigs for a small area and a larger asymmetric corner. Each design has five prepared sizes.

How do I position the corner accurately on a napkin?

Mark the napkin corner and the placement lines before hooping. Hoop the napkin so the corner points inward into the finished item, not toward the outer cut edge.

Can I resize the designs?

Use one of the prepared sizes. Automatic resizing changes stitch density and stitch length, so a different exact size requires professional resizing.

How do I open the files after purchase?

Extract the ZIP archive on a computer, then select the format required by your embroidery machine. Do not open the ZIP archive directly on the machine.