Baby Elephants Trio Embroidery Design, Nursery Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

This took me a good while to get right, the trio format means ya have to balance 3 elephants worth of satin work without the whole thing looking crowded. Twelve colours and nine sizes, with the smallest at 3.5 inches wide sitting around 1,612 stitches and the full 7.5 inch version climbing to 41,687. Density is 115 so its a proper dense stitch-out, and I'd recommend a lil extra stabiliser if you're putting it on knit fabric.

The digitising on the ear sections uses directional satin that runs inward toward the centre of each ear, which gives ya that soft three-dimensional look you sometimes see on boutique children's clothing. Use medium-weight cutaway stabiliser for jersey and a topping on terry cloth to stop the loops interfering with the detail. A bunch of customers have asked whether the colour changes are fiddly, twelve colours total, nine size options, and thats just how it is when you want proper shading. The stops are sequenced logically so youre not jumping back and forth between the same thread shades. Stitch the underlay passes first at a lower tension and youll get cleaner coverage on the fills.

One customer wrote me last september saying she'd done a 6-inch chest on a baby blanket in grey velour and the satin shading on the elephants came out looking really polished. The lil bow on the lead elephant is whats getting the most comments apparently. Thats the main thing, that bow detail is a single colour stop right near the end of the sequence, easy to skip if you want a plainer look. Pop a topping on terry before you hoop and youll save yourself a lot of trouble with loop interference on the fine ear detail. Drop a quick chat note if the file format you need isnt obvious from the zip contents.