Add a fun and flavorful touch to your next project with our collection of food and drink embroidery designs. From coffee cups and cocktails to tacos, pizza, fruit, vegetables and playful food sayings, these machine embroidery files are perfect for creating personalized kitchen accessories, apparel, gifts and home décor.

Whether you love cute food illustrations, funny culinary quotes or classic ingredient-inspired artwork, you can find designs for many different styles and occasions. Browse our complete collection of food and drink embroidery designs and choose a design that fits your next machine embroidery project.
Food-themed embroidery is a natural choice for kitchen projects. Small fruit, vegetable, coffee and cooking designs can turn simple blanks into decorative pieces that feel personal and handmade.

Popular projects include:
Simple fruit and vegetable motifs can create a clean farmhouse-inspired look, while funny food sayings add more personality to towels, aprons and gifts.
Coffee-themed embroidery is especially popular for mugs, kitchen linens, tote bags and casual apparel. This collection includes coffee cups, espresso-inspired sayings and humorous designs that work well for anyone who considers coffee part of their daily routine.
Designs such as coffee quotes and playful sayings can be stitched onto sweatshirts, shirts or reusable cup sleeves to create easy handmade gifts for teachers, coworkers, friends and family.
If you enjoy adding names or custom lettering to coffee-themed projects, explore our machine embroidery fonts for monograms, names and personalized sayings.


Fruit and vegetable embroidery patterns are versatile choices for kitchen décor, farmers market totes, children’s clothing and seasonal projects. Apples, cherries, peppers, citrus fruits, pickles and other produce-inspired designs can be used individually or combined to create larger themed collections.
For example, small fruit designs can be stitched along the edge of a towel, while larger produce motifs can become a focal point on an apron or tote bag.
Many food-themed projects also pair naturally with our farming embroidery designs, especially when creating farmers market accessories, garden gifts or rustic kitchen décor.
Food and humor are an easy combination for machine embroidery. Designs featuring tacos, pizza, fries, avocado, chili peppers and other favorite foods can turn an ordinary shirt, towel or bag into something more playful.
Funny food sayings are especially useful for:
If lettering is the main focus of your project, you may also want to browse our word art embroidery designs for more sayings, quotes and decorative text.
Our drink embroidery designs include themes inspired by wine, cocktails, coffee and other favorite beverages. These designs are ideal for bar towels, wine bags, aprons, tote bags and gifts for hosts or friends.
Wine sayings and cocktail designs work especially well for housewarming gifts, bridal parties, birthdays and entertaining accessories. A personalized wine bag or embroidered bar towel can turn a simple item into a memorable handmade gift.
For celebrations and special occasions, you can also explore our wedding embroidery designs for additional gift and party project ideas.
Applique is a great technique for food designs because it allows you to combine embroidery with colorful fabric. Fruit, desserts, drinks and other simple shapes work particularly well with applique and can help add texture and visual interest to children’s clothing, towels and tote bags.
Browse our applique embroidery designs if you want to create projects that combine fabric pieces with machine stitching.
Food and drink embroidery designs can be used to create personalized gifts for almost anyone. Instead of giving a standard kitchen towel, apron or tote bag, adding an embroidered design gives the item more personality.
Gift ideas include:
You can make the project even more personal by combining a food design with a name, monogram or short phrase using one of our embroidery fonts.
Before downloading a design, consider the size of your embroidery hoop and the fabric you plan to stitch. Smaller designs are useful for napkins, shirt pockets, cup sleeves and children’s clothing, while larger designs work well on aprons, tote bags, sweatshirts and decorative kitchen towels.
You should also consider stitch density and fabric type. Lightweight cotton may require a different stabilizer than thick towels, canvas bags or sweatshirts. Testing your design on a scrap piece of similar fabric can help you check tension, thread colors and stabilizer before stitching the finished project.
The products in this collection are digital machine embroidery files, not finished embroidered items. You will need an embroidery machine and a compatible file format to stitch the designs.
Apex offers common embroidery formats including PES, DST, ART, EXP, JEF, HUS, SEW, VIP, VP3 and XXX on its machine embroidery products. Always check the individual product page to confirm the available formats and design sizes before purchasing.
If you are new to machine embroidery, you can try the download process with Apex’s free embroidery designs before beginning a larger project.
If you have a restaurant logo, café artwork, recipe illustration or another food-related image that you want converted into an embroidery file, Apex also offers custom embroidery digitizing.
Custom digitizing can be useful for restaurant uniforms, bakery aprons, café merchandise, food businesses, clubs and personal projects that require artwork not already available in the design collection.
From tacos, pizza and fruit to coffee, wine and funny food sayings, food-themed embroidery offers plenty of possibilities for creative projects. Use these designs to decorate kitchen accessories, clothing, tote bags, gifts and home décor.
Browse the food and drink machine embroidery designs and find the right file for your next project. For even more inspiration, explore all machine embroidery designs available from Apex.
Food embroidery designs can be used on kitchen towels, aprons, tote bags, shirts, sweatshirts, napkins, placemats, reusable grocery bags and many other fabric projects.
No. The designs are digital machine embroidery files. You need an embroidery machine, thread, stabilizer and a compatible file format to stitch them onto your project.
Popular themes include coffee, fruit, vegetables, pizza, tacos, desserts, wine, cocktails, kitchen sayings and humorous food quotes.
Yes. Depending on your embroidery software, you can combine many designs with names, monograms or additional lettering. Make sure the finished design fits within your hoop and embroidery area.
The correct format depends on your embroidery machine. Common formats include PES, DST, JEF, EXP, HUS, VIP, VP3 and XXX. Check your machine manual and the individual product page before downloading your files.
Yes. Simple fruit, coffee, food outline and word-art designs can be good choices for beginners. Start with a stable fabric, use the correct stabilizer and test the design before stitching your finished item.
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