Baby Feet with Heart Cutout Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Two solid baby footprints side by side, with a small heart cut out of the sole of each foot as negative space, no surrounding frame or extras. Just the prints. The toe pads are split out from the main foot pad as 5 separate dots over each footprint which is the giveaway that the digitising treats baby feet as a pad-and-five-toes rather than a simple silhouette. So the proportions feel right instead of cartoonish.

Five sizes total, smallest is 2 inches at 2,241 stitches and largest is 6 inches at 12,581 stitches. Single colour, no colour changes, density runs 368 which is mid-range and means it can sit comfortably on most nursery fabrics like cotton interlock, muslin wraps, and softer fleece without distortion. Heres the catch with the smallest size, the heart cutouts at 2 inches read at about 2 mm wide which is fine on a smooth weave but will close up on terry or anything fluffy. So pick the 3-inch as your minimum on textured fabric.

Heres how I built it in professional tools. The foot pads use a tatami fill with the stitch direction angled abit off-vertical so the soles dont look like flat black blobs under raking light, the satin underlay sits perpendicular to the top stitch direction which is what keeps the edges crisp and prevents the toes from puckering separately. A customer reached out last winter looking for the same design in white thread on a black onesie and the negative-space hearts came out perfect at 4 inches, which is honestly my favourite version of it.

Its great on white, cream, sage, dusty pink, and pale grey woven cotton, muslin wraps, jersey interlock, and lightweight fleece. Use lightweight tearaway under wovens and soft cutaway behind any knit fabric. Skip heavy terry and fluffy fleece because the heart windows lose their shape. Pop a topping layer on muslin and anything loosely woven. Pair with the matching baby feet wings or split monogram designs for a coordinated nursery set.