Candy Cane Christmas Stocking Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This one doesnt do subtle. The stocking body is all bold horizontal stripes, red and white alternating all the way down, thick satin bands with black outlines at each edge. The green cuff at the top is rounded and padded-looking, and out of it spills a curved candy cane, two wrapped gift packages in salmon and blush tones, and a spray of green holly with red berry dots. Its a dense busy design and it works best on a plain background where the stripe pattern can breathe.

At 976 density this is one of the heavier fills in the catalogue. Use a firm cutaway stabiliser, I wouldnt touch this with tearaway on anything other than very stiff denim. Add a topping layer when you stitch it on terry cloth or fleece, the white stripe areas need support to stay raised. 7 colours, 6 changes: 2 greens, salmon pink, white, dark red, bright red, black. The machines going to run continuously for a fair while at the 3.96 by 6.51 inch size, thats 25,155 stitches.

professional digitising software built the stripe sequence with alternating satin fill angles so each red band and each white band reads as a distinct layer rather than a flat alternating pattern. The curved cane shape uses a column fill that follows its arc cleanly. Smallest file is 8,207 stitches at 1.53 by 2.51 inches, and that tiny version still shows every stripe.

Run this on a heather grey tee for the stripe pop, stitch it on a navy quilted stocking blank, or add it to a white kitchen towel for a bold seasonal kitchen look. Trim a fabric ornament tag to shape after stitching the 2.51 inch version, it looks great that way. A customer this past november ran a batch of 12 on matching white linen totes for a craft market and sold every one before noon.