Autumn Girl on Bench Embroidery Design, Fall Scene Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Figurative designs are the hardest ones to get right in machine embroidery, I rebuilt the face on this one three times to get the skin tone blending to work at this size. The final version has nineteen colours, which I know sounds like a lot, but the autumn palette just demands that range if you want the leaves to read as leaves rather than orange blobs. The girl sits on a bench with leaves falling around her, and the mood is that soft melancholy cosy feeling you get in those early october afternoons when the light goes gold. One customer wrote me after stitching it on a linen journal cover saying it was exactly what she'd wanted for a memory book she was making, thats the kind of project this one belongs in.

13,633 stitches at a density of 203. The face uses short-stitch blending technique so the complexion tones transition smoothly rather than banding, and the foliage uses directional fill at varying angles to suggest movement. Digitised in my software. Use a medium-weight cutaway stabiliser, with nineteen colour changes and that stitch density, anything lighter will let the piece distort. Topping film is gonna be essential on any textured fabric like fleece or canvas; without it, the face details actually lose crispness. On smooth cotton or linen you can skip the topping and the satin columns on the clothing and bench read fine. Avoid dark fabrics unless youre going for a silhouette effect, the flesh colour palette doesnt have enough contrast to show on near-black grounds.

Stitch it onto a handmade autumn journal cover, a linen tote, or a framed hoop as a seasonal display. Use warm-toned fabric grounds, caramel, rust, or ivory, where the nineteen-colour palette has room to breathe. Its a keepsake piece, not a fast-batch garment design.