Nancy was kind enought to both convert Kathy’s design into all of the popular machine embroidery formats, as well as create a version of her own design with a “Yes We Did” tagline. For Kathy’s design, Nancy offers the following advice:

The finished design should be about 3”H x 2.5”W and approximately 57,000 stitches, so I would advise home embroiderers to use a good stabilizer and that this will take a little while to complete, but worth it, because it is a great item.

Right click here to download a zip file of both designs, in all formats.

And not to beat a dead horse, but I’ve got to remind you that, as with this first embroidery patterns, please do not use these files for commercial purposes. This is the honor system, folks, and we have to trust you here. This is design is not available anywhere else, and Kathy has provided it here on the Obama Craft Project site so that machine embroidery enthusiasts and Obama supporters can enjoy it for their own personal use. By clicking the download link below, you agree to these terms. Thanks for understanding.

The awesome machine embroidery patterns that Nancy Cochrane offered for free on this site have proved to be VERY popular. So much so, that  a discussion ensued on that post, and another stitcher programmed an Obama portrait for use on a digital embroidery machine. This one is offered in PES (Brother) format. If you are able to convert this file into other formats, please send it on to me at obamacraftproject@gmail.com and I’ll post it here for download. Thank you so much to Kathy Dederich for this design!

Click here to download the final.

As with this first embroidery patterns, please do not use this file for commercial purposes. This is the honor system, folks, and we have to trust you here. This is design is not available anywhere else, and Kathy has provided it here on the Obama Craft Project site so that machine embroidery enthusiasts and Obama supporters can enjoy it for their own personal use. By clicking the download link below, you agree to these terms. Thanks for understanding.

Laeroport embroidered this tea towel for a friend’s birthday. We like the integration of the Obama logo into the “O” and the celebratory fireworks in the “E.”

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This embroidered tea towel from flickr user jjjjo really doesn’t need any additional commentary, does it?

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Nancy Cochrane of Dayton, Ohio is a freelance machine embroidery digitizer—she makes those incredible patterns that can be uploaded to your embroidery machine. She primarily works with mostly with home machine embroidery enthusiasts who do personalized and one of a kind items. She designed this “Super Obama” machine embroidery pattern, and is making is available—free of charge—to Obama Craft Project readers. So if you have an embroidery machine, this is your lucky day! This image is 3.5”W x 3.2”H, 4 colors and approximately 12K stitches. Nancy is offering this in the following formats:

• Janome (.JEF)
• Husqvarna (.HUS)
• Singer (.XXX)
• Brother (.PES)
• Tajima (.DST)

If you have a machine that takes a different file format, leave a comment below and we’ll connect you with Nancy, as she says she can probably hook you up.  While you’re at it, why not leave a note for her in the comments if you’re planning on using these files, so she can know how incredibly generous it is of her to make this pattern available to Obama supporters!

Finally, please do not use these files for commercial purposes. This is the honor system, folks, and we have to trust you here. This is design is not available anywhere else, and Nancy has provided it here on the Obama Craft Project site so that machine embroidery enthusiasts and Obama supporters can enjoy it for their own personal use. By clicking the download link below, you agree to these terms. Thanks for understanding.

Click here to download these free “Super Obama” machine embroidery patterns now! (This is a .zip file, you’ll need StuffIt (free) or Winzip (not free) or some other decompression software to download these files. You will download a file containing the design in five different formats.)

Thank you, Nancy!

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And then we saw this picture of its proud recipient wearing it.

That little one’s probably going to persuade a lot of undecided Ohioans…

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Tonight’s Daily Dose of Obama Crafts for Sale (DDOOCFS) features not a single item, but rather an entire Etsy store. Etsy seller ObamaStuff has several stencils for sale to aid in your Obama crafting… Our favorite is the “We are the change.” O-mark stencil. Michele, the proprietor of ObamaStuff, is donating a portion of the profits to the Obama campaign—she does ask, however, that you please only stencil your own stuff, not public property or anything that could reflect poorly on the Obama campaign.

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Rachel (from Austin, Texas) doesn’t know this, but seeing her wonderful screen print (using a hand-cut stencil, rather than photo emulsion) this spring was this first time we thought, “Wish someone would record all the wonderful, creative craft stuff people are making…” Many months later, and a number of projects of her own—and lots of great ones made by others, The Obama Craft Project was born.

We had the chance to see Rachel’s Obama print in person this summer, after she’d begun embroidering it in red and blue, adding “Yes we can!”

(Click on the photo to visit the flickr page, where Rachel’s added lots of notes about this project.)

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(Shout-out to our pal Average Jane Crafter for alerting us to this one!)

Not only is this bag from Flickr user emdot beautifully hand-embroidered, it’s environmentally smart, too.  You can read about Barack Obama’s plan for preserving our environment and providing new energy for America here.