All Hallows Eve Embroidery Design, Halloween Pattern, Instant Download

This is a two-colour mixed lettering design where the words and the little creatures each do their own thing. "All" sits in plain black serif block letters, small and upright. "hallows" swoops through the centre in orange brushscript with elegant looping tails, its the most visually dominant word in the composition. "Eve" returns to upright black block. And then scattered around the letters you get a grumpy-looking black cat sitting up top-right corner, eyes narrowed, whiskers out, very much judging everything, and a bat with wide open wings gliding in from the bottom-left. Five sizes, 2 colours, 1 colour change. Clean and quick to stitch.

Smallest size is 1.62 inches wide by 3.01 inches tall, which makes this one narrow and vertical compared to most halloween designs. Largest goes to 3.77 inches wide by 7.01 inches tall. Stitch count goes from 4,389 up to 11,454 on the biggest, really low density at 433, the machine cruises through this one fast. Tearaway stabiliser is fine on most wovens. The black cat silhouette is hooped in a tight dense fill, it needs the hoop locked before the machine starts that section or the outline creeps.

A customer from a costume shop in Austin told me she uses this on cream linen tote bags for her october window display and said the orange script photographs really beautifully against the pale ground, she sent me message with photos and honestly she was right. The vertical format also means it works well on tote handles and pencil cases where horizontal designs dont fit.

Stitch on cream linen or natural canvas for the most atmosphere, the orange hallows text glows warm against undyed cloth. Black cotton works too and flips it to high contrast moody. Skip busy patterned fabric here, the cat and bat silhouettes both need a clear ground to read. Pair the 3-inch size on a pocket or sleeve patch, the 7-inch on a tote bag front panel.

Add a cutaway underlay if youre stitching on a cotton blend with any give, the tall thin vertical shape is prone to shifting without good stabiliser. Email me through the shop if the bat wings merge or the cat whiskers disappear and Ill adjust the minimum stitch length for ya.