Black Girl Natural Hairstyles Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Six girls, all seen from behind, sitting in a row with their natural hair on full display. Every single one is rocking a different style. Far left has a close-cropped flat-top. Next is a tall high pineapple. Then comes a wide full afro, then soft loose curls, then what looks like a set of freeform locs, and on the far right two round afro puffs sitting up on either side. They all have on white crop tops and light sky blue denim shorts, little orange earrings on each, and warm brown skin tones. The whole row sits horizontally so its a wide banner shape, 5.5 inches across on the petite size full 7.5 on the biggest.

Five colours, 4 colour changes. my main digitising tool used a fairly high density of 1793 on this one because the natural hair sections have alot of tight fill going on, especially in the afro and the puffs. Stitching starts at 25k on the 5.5-inch and climbs to 37k on the 7.5-inch. The white tops and sky blue shorts are straightforward satin fills but each hairstyle gets a slightly varied underlay to give it body. The skin tones come from a single warm brown thread thats digitised with directional stitching so it doesnt read flat. Its honestly one of the cleaner five-colour jobs Ive seen at this density.

I get messages about this one consistently from natural hair salon owners, girls confidence retreat organisers, and teachers at schools with cultural appreciation programmes. A customer running a natural hair retreat ordered it last february and had it stitched onto 30 white canvas tote bags as welcome gifts. She said the girls were suprised to see themselves represented and took photos of the bags all afternoon. Message me if you need the design scaled for a very specific bag width and ill check what works.

Use a medium-weight cutaway stabiliser because of the density. Stitch on white, cream, or light grey cotton for the strongest read. Avoid any busy patterned fabric because the small individual figures need clean negative space around em to register properly. The banner format looks great on tote bag fronts, pillow covers, and framed linen strips. Use a topping on fleece or terry to stop the stitches sinking. Message me with your bag dimensions if ya want to confirm the right size before you order.