♡ Using your 

Purple Bear Designs

Thank you for supporting Purple Bear Designs! Every embroidery design is created with care, thoroughly stitch-tested, and made to bring joy to your embroidery projects. To help protect our designs while allowing you to enjoy them, we've kept our terms simple and easy to understand.

Thank You! 💜

Thank you for supporting Purple Bear Designs.

Every purchase helps us continue creating original machine embroidery designs that are fun to stitch and enjoyable to make.

All of our designs are carefully created, thoroughly stitch-tested and supplied as digital downloads, ready for you to enjoy.

This page explains how you can use your designs, along with a few simple website terms that help protect our work and keep everything fair for everyone.

🐻✅ You're Welcome To...

🐻 ✅ Create Handmade Items
You're welcome to create physical products using Purple Bear Designs for yourself, your family and friends, or to give as thoughtful handmade gifts.


🐻 ✅ Sell Your Handmade Creations
You're welcome to sell handmade items created using Purple Bear Designs in small quantities. Our designs are perfect for small businesses, craft fairs and handmade gifts.


🐻 ✅ Resize Your Designs
You may resize your embroidery designs to suit your project. Please note that once a design has been resized, we cannot guarantee the stitch quality or final result.


🐻 ✅ Combine with Other Designs
You are welcome to combine Purple Bear Designs with other embroidery files that you legally own to create your own unique handmade projects.


🐻 ✅ Need Some Advice?
Not sure whether something is allowed? Just ask! We'd much rather answer a quick question than have you worry about getting it wrong.

🐻❌ Please Don't...

🐻 ❌ Share the Files
Please don't share, sell, gift or redistribute any Purple Bear embroidery files. This includes free designs, purchased designs and any files that have been altered or resized.


🐻 ❌ Upload the Files
Please don't upload our designs to websites, Facebook groups, cloud storage, file-sharing websites or anywhere else online. The files are for your personal use only.


🐻 ❌ Alter the Designs
Please don't edit, modify or digitise our embroidery designs to create new embroidery files or derivative designs.


🐻 ❌ Mass Production
Purple Bear Designs are intended for handmade creations. Producing 500 or more physical items using the same design is considered mass production and is not permitted.


🐻 ❌ Use Our Images or Website Content
Please don't copy or use our sample photographs, product images, website content or written descriptions without our written permission.


🐻 ❌ Create New Digital Products
Our embroidery designs must not be used to create new digital products. This includes embroidery files, SVGs, PDFs, AI artwork, clipart, printable products or any other downloadable digital content.


🐻 ❌ File Sharing
File sharing is never permitted under any circumstances, including free designs. Digital files must not be shared, copied, traded or sold to anyone else.

Free Design Policy

Any designs obtained free of charge are available in your account for 1 month only.

After this time, they will be automatically removed from your account. We strongly recommend downloading your free designs as soon as possible and keeping your own backup copy.

💜 Why We Have These Guidelines

Every Purple Bear design starts as an idea before being carefully digitised, stitch-tested and refined to make sure it stitches beautifully for you.

Creating each design takes many hours, and these simple guidelines help protect that work. By respecting our terms, you're helping us continue to create new, original embroidery designs for the whole Purple Bear community to enjoy.

Thank you for supporting our small business. Every purchase, kind comment and recommendation means more than you know, and we're truly grateful to have such a wonderful community of stitchers. 💜

♡ Why Choose Purple Bear?♡

Everything is designed with stitchers in mind.

Instant Download

Your files are ready as soon as you checkout.

Stitch Tested

Every design is stitched before release.

Multiple Formats

Includes all major embroidery file formats.

Friendly Support

Friendly help whenever you need us.

Become Part of the Purple Bear Family

Join thousands of friendly machine embroiderers sharing ideas, inspiration, finished projects, exclusive offers and the occasional free design.

We'd love to see what you're creating.

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