Black Educator Africa Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The Africa continent shape sits centre-frame as a solid forest green fill, the coastline you recognise instantly. Up on the top left a red geometric crown floats above it, built from angular satin columns with little ball-tip points at each peak. The word Black runs across the upper portion of the continent in bold red satin fill lettering, then Educator spans the full width below in those chunky amber gold block caps. Under everything there's a row of small diamond shapes, alternating red, cream, black and gold, like a kente-inspired trim line.

The detail that I realy like about this one is how the text sits on top of the green continent fill rather than beside it. Your eye reads the words first and then realises theyre sitting on the map of Africa, which gives it a meaning that hits a bit slower. Eight colour changes in the file total, and nine stops, so ya wanna pick a machine with a solid colour-change system. On the biggest 7.47 x 7.5 inch size its 42,363 stitches, the smallest at 3.49 x 3.5 inches comes in at 12,674.

My sister is a professor at an HBCU and she asked me to put something together for teacher appreciation week last may. Her department head had it stitched on tote bags for every faculty member and she sent me pictures. The green on the cream canvas looked incredible, the red crown basically glows. Since then I get a bunch of orders around teacher appreciation month and the start of the school year.

Run this on cream, white, or black cotton for best contrast. The green and amber both need a pale ground to read properly. Use a cutaway stabiliser because of the dense tatami fill on the continent shape, tearaway wont hold it flat. Hoop tight on the larger sizes, 42k stitches is alot of thread weight on one piece of fabric.

Ping me if anything looks off once its stitched out and I'll take a look at the file for ya.