Cheerful Christmas Snowman Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Ten colors on a snowman sounds like a lot but every single one earns its place here. The body is white satin with heavy black etching lines giving it that vintage illustrated look, not the flat white fill you usually see. Then the scarf goes in with red and green horizontal stripes, the hat is a teal that pops nicely against the white body, and the holly on the hat brim adds another layer of green detail. The multi-color string lights wrapped around his midsection use all the remaining colors: yellow, purple, teal again, orange, red, and a couple more. At the biggest size you can see each individual light bulb clearly.

Stitch count range is 30,046 at from 3-in to 68,556 at the 7.21 x 7.51 inch largest. Thats a significant machine run, probably 60-90 minutes depending on speed, so this isnt a design for a rushed afternoon. The density though is what gives it that illustrated quality, the kind of look you usually only see on commercial embroidered gifts. Run firm cutaway underneath on all fabrics, the 10-color stop sequence means the machine pauses frequently and any fabric shift will show in the registration.

My daughter saw the large size stitched on a dark green sweatshirt at a christmas market last year and wanted to know where they got it, I told her I could make one. She picked navy blue as the base and the snowman figure with that teal hat looked genuinely spectacular against dark fabric. That combination is worth trying. Lay polymesh underneath the sweatshirt fleece to keep the dense white fill sections from sinking into the nap.

Also brilliant on christmas stockings, a pillow front, or a large tote bag. The vintage illustration style means it doesnt look babyish, adults wear these happily. At the 3.5 inch smallest size it also fits nicely on a shirt pocket or a kids jumper chest without needing a huge hoop.