American Flag Lips with Heart Cutout Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Full lips, flag inside, and right where youd expect teeth there is instead a clean heart-shaped cutout so the background fabric shows through as negative space. Thats the trick of this design and I love it, its not immediately obvious until you look close. The upper lip section on the left is the blue canton with white stars, the rest of the lip area is horizontal red and white stripes running ear to ear. A chunky black satin outline traces the full lip contour and also frames the inner heart void, so every edge is crisply defined.

Its genuinely complex to digitise well. the software I use handled the underlay routing carefully so the white satin separating the red stripes doesnt ghost through into the blue section and the colour changes sit clean. Four thread colours, blue then red then white then black, 3 colour changes total. The density runs high at 1,103 which is what makes it look so saturated and opaque, none of that see-through coverage problem you get with cheaper digitising.

I get orders for this one from a few very specific customers. Women who do custom apparel for bachelorette groups going to independence day events. Country music festival vendors who want something bold and feminine and americana all at once. And I sold a bunch to a nail salon owner last june who was making staff uniforms for their promotion week, that was a new one for me but it stitched out great on their black polo shirts.

Use a mesh cutaway stabiliser on every size. Do not attempt this on jersey without topping over each colour section, I cant stress that enough. Hoop firm on woven canvas or denim and let the machine run at 70 percent speed through the dense red and blue fill sections. Check your bobbin tension before the white stripe sections or they fill in muddy. Four sizes from 4 inches up to 7.02 inches, stitch count from 19,213 to 39,411.