Cute Cartoon Crocodile Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Mocked up this crocodile design last February after getting requests for something that worked on kids clothing but wasnt just a basic outline. This croc is chubby and upright, the kind of character a 3-year-old immediately points at. The grin is wide with a proper ivory teeth row along the lower jaw. The belly has a lighter scale texture. The eyes are small round black circles with a white catch-light. Its got seven colours and honestly that sounds like alot until you stitch it out and realise each colour section is doing real work to give it that cartoon character feel.

Seven colours: kelly green fills the main body, lighter sage takes up the belly scales, ivory handles the teeth, black covers the outlines and eyes, white picks out the eye highlights, a warm mid-green sits on the back scale rows, and a deep shadow tone goes under the jaw and sides. Built in the software I use, 6 sizes from 1.29 by 2.5 inches up to 3.87 by 7.5 inches. Stitch counts go from 4,478 to 18,263. At the largest size this is a tall design so check your hoop depth before you start. Density is 629 and the belly scale section uses a topping layer to stop the texture sinking into the knit on a onesie.

I stitched the 3-inch version onto a white cotton onesie and it held up through 20 washes without any thread lift. A customer grabbed the 4-inch version for a toddler hoodie back panel and asked me to verify the stitch sequence for the teeth row because theyd run into a thread change issue on their 7-needle machine. I sorted it out, so if ya hit the same thing just send me a note and Ill look at it.

Pop it on a onesie chest or a bib front. Use heavy cutaway stabiliser on all knit fabrics, dont skip it. Run the bobbin in white or a neutral so the back of the hoop stays clean on lighter fabrics. Stitch the 2-inch version on a baseball cap panel if youre doing a quick kids gift.