Carrot Vegetable Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Its a single carrot, pointing straight down, and its surprisingly satisfying to stitch out. The body runs from a bright orange at the shoulders tapering through burnt orange and into a warm rust towards the tip, the colour transitions are directional fills not hard stops so it reads like an actual vegetable and not a clip art shape. Across the surface theres a fine crosshatch tatami pattern that gives it that real skin-like texture, a bunch of thin lines running at offset angles. You can see the depth in it.

Up top the green foliage is wild, loose and spiky, like the carrot just got pulled fresh from soil. Dark green at the base of the stems lightening a bit toward the leaf tips. Six colours total, from the leaf dark green through five shades of the carrot body itself. Nine sizes in the file, smallest is 3.49 inches wide and 1.67 inches tall, the biggest runs 7.49 by 3.58. Stitch counts from 10,916 up to 22,626 on the largest.

My mum asked me for this one for her kitchen aprons back in february. She runs a community garden stall and wanted something that said vegetable without being a cartoon. I sent her the 6-inch on a cream cotton apron and she said it looked like something from a proper farmhouse kitchen. Email me if you want to send a quick note about sizing and Ill answer same day.

Pair it with a plain linen or white cotton ground and the orange really jumps. Avoid brown or rust fabric, the orange just gets swallowed into the ground. Drop mid cutaway under underneath, the tatami fill on the body section has a decent density and you want it sitting flat. Pop the smaller sizes onto tea towels, apron pockets, tote bag corners. Best results on tight-weave cotton or linen canvas, the crosshatch detail dissapears a bit on loose-weave or terry cloth.

Add it alongside other vegetable designs if youre building a farmhouse kitchen set on matching tea towels or a set of napkins. The carrot sits well next to a pea or radish at around the same scale. Stitch row by row across a runner length of linen if you want a repeating kitchen border.