Better Late Than Ugly Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Four words, two fonts, two colors and a very specific attitude. 'Better' sits across the top in solid black satin block caps. Below that 'late' drops in red cursive script, looser and more handwritten looking. Then 'Than' comes back in black block caps. Then 'ugly' sweeps in at the bottom in a bigger red brush script that takes up as much room as the two black words combined. A red lipstick tube anchors the left side and a red lips icon closes the bottom right. The whole layout has a confident stagger to it, like someone placed it by feel not a ruler.

2 colors: black and red. 6 sizes, stitch counts from 7,279 on the 2.33-inch wide size up to 32,945 on the 6.96-inch wide largest. Just 1 color change, black stitches first, then red. 14 trims. professional tools digitised this. The satin block letter columns still reads sharp on the compact runs where column widths get tight. Im quite proud of how the 'ugly' script reads at the medium sizes actually, its got a real brush-stroke looseness to it. A customer ordered the 4-inch version last week for a canvas tote gift and said people kept asking where she bought it.

Use a firm cutaway stabiliser, satin density needs something stable underneath or the columns go wavy. Dont stitch this on stretch fabric, its not built for it. Hoop canvas or cotton. Stitch the black first and check registration before youre letting it run the red. Compact run at 3.5 inches stays under 9k stitches on a hat front, stitch the 4-in piece for a sweatshirt chest. Theyll be reading it from across the room.