Breaching Whale Embroidery Design, Instant Download

One customer ordered this one for a beach towel and I think that might be the best use Ive seen for it. A humpback whale coming straight out of the water at a diagonal, body tilted up, tail still kicking through the spray at the bottom. The layering goes from deep navy on the back down through a mid periwinkle and then pale icy blue on the belly, with the actual throat grooves and barnacle markings picked out in black. White foam and loose spray bits scatter around the lower breach and across the white belly patch.

Pop a medium woven cutaway under this one, the layered fill on the whale body runs to 537 density and you want stable backing to keep the directional sections from shifting. The lighter spray sections wont distort independently, but the body fill will torque a light tearaway. Use cutaway, not tearaway. 5 colours total: three blues, white, black. 4 colour changes. Stitch count runs 8,870 at the smallest to 25,112 at the largest, 9 sizes from 2.91 inches wide up to 6.24 inches wide and 7.5 inches tall. Taller than it is wide, so it suits a portrait orientation really well.

The beach towel works because the tall format fills the towel end panel, and blue on white terry reads immediately as ocean, you dont need to explain what it is. Stitch the 4-5-inch run across light blue chambray shirt and the fabric itself acts as the ocean background, which saves a thread colour entirely. Clever shortcut that. Hoop it on any pale blue or white base fabric and the navy-to-ice-blue gradient on the body does most of the work.