Bare Tree Embroidery Design, Leafless Winter Tree Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

All branch, no leaves. The trunk goes up thick from the base, splits into the main scaffold branches left and right, then those split again and again until the outer edges are down to fine spidery twig tips. Its that typical late autumn silhouette you see against a grey sky, and the branch structure is well balanced, not too symmetrical but not chaotic either. Just a proper tree shape.

One colour. Brown. Thats it. No color changes, 0 stops, 1 thread from start to finish. The whole design is done in satin column stitching that physically gets narrower as you move from trunk to twig, so the branches feel tapered and real rather than uniform-width cartoon lines. Simple to stitch, genuinely hard to get wrong.

4 sizes from 3 inches square up to 6 inches square, stitch counts 7,086 on the small up to 14,318 on the largest. Honestly its one of the fastest stitch-outs in this tree range. Tearaway stabiliser works fine on woven cotton and linen at all 4 sizes, you dont need cutaway for this one unless youre going on a stretch jersey.

I sell this one year round but it really picks up in october and november. Customers use it for autumn napkins, winter table runners, seasonal hoops. A customer last October ordered 3 sizes, she was making a set of embroidered linen napkins as a christmas gift and wanted small medium and large versions on separate napkin corners.

Try it on natural linen, cream cotton, or charcoal grey fabric where that single brown thread goes from rustic to almost graphic. Use the smaller 3 inch on napkin corners or patch projects. Go to 5-6 inch for a tote centrepiece or framed piece. Skip busy patterned fabrics because the fine twig detail will disappear into a print background. Watch bobbin tension on the finer branches so they dont loop.