Baseball Junkie Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Theres a half baseball at the top, just the upper arc with the curved seam lines running through it, no full circle. Below that, 'baseball' sits in rounded red bubbly script with that slightly wobbly hand-lettered weight. Then 'junkie' comes in underneath in chunky black satin lettering, and both sides of the word have small leaf-laurel sprigs fanning outward. Its kinda like a team badge except it owns the obsession rather than pretending to be official.

2 colours, black and red, 1 colour change. Stitch count is on the lighter side, about 3,900 stitches at the 2-inch size and just under 9,700 at the largest 5.3-inch run. That low density means it sits well on light jersey, polo fabric and soft cotton without any stiffening. Digitised in embroidery software so the leaf flourishes dont collapse on smaller sizes.

A customer last summer stitched a batch of the 3.5-inch file onto baseball caps for his rec-league team and said they turned out cleaner than the screen-printed hats hed bought the year before. The rounded script on 'baseball' particularly held up well on the structured cap crown. Pop the 2-inch size on a shirt pocket and it reads from a few feet away without overwhelming the fabric.

Back tearaway on woven cotton, canvas totes and stable denim. Hoop firmly so the laurel sprigs sit flush and dont lift. Skip thick fleece or heavy terry fabric where the stitch density would get swallowed up. Cutaway stabiliser is worth it on knit shirts if youre washing frequently.

Works well on white, cream, light grey or any neutral. Run the red 'baseball' script first so the black 'junkie' lettering goes over the seam lines cleanly, then trim your bobbin thread and youre done.