Adorable Snowman Embroidery Design, Winter Holiday Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

My niece asked me back in december to make her a snowman for her school bag and I ended up digitising this properly so other people could use it too. Eleven colours, 28,275 stitches in a three-by-3.5 inch rectangle, thats a fair bit packed into a compact size. The density is 417 across the main body fills, which sounds high but its what you need to get the white snowball sections feeling solid and round rather than thin and transparent.

The digitising is done in my embroidery software and I paid alot of attention to the underlay on the white sections. White thread shows every imperfection, if the underlay is wrong you'll see bobbin bleed through, or the fill will look streaky. I used a directional underlay at 45 degrees offset from the top fill on each sphere, which keeps things solid. The carrot nose and the hat get satin stitch, short columns with proper underlay so they very pop against the white body. The scarf uses a fill with a slight directional shift to give it a fabric texture feel.

Text me if youre stuck, but first hoop a test piece, thats my usual advice for any 11-colour design. Use cutaway stabiliser, not tearaway. At 28,275 stitches on a three-inch footprint the fabric needs full backing support, and a flimsy tearaway wont hold it properly. Pair it with a topping film if the base fabric has got any texture. Stitch at 80 percent speed through the snowball fill sections, back up to 100 for the coloured accessories. Avoid putting this on a dark background unless youre doing a proper applique first, white thread at density 417 will cover most fabric colours but very dark fabrics sometimes bleed through on first wash. Text me a quick note if you want a colour variant of the scarf or hat and Ill prep the file.