Chocolate Almond Ice Cream Bar Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Summer fair season is when this one really gets going. Its a chocolate-dipped ice cream bar on a stick, the classic kind, with a big bite already taken out of the top corner so you can see that blush-pink vanilla inside peeking through. Golden amber almonds are scattered all over the dark chocolate coating, and theres a little cluster of loose almonds flying off near the bite. Chocolate is dripping down toward the stick, which is a warm caramel tan colour. The whole thing has that dense directional tatami fill with proper underlay underneath, so the finished stitch has real depth to it.

I ran this through pro digitising tools with a density of around 1444 stitches per 10mm, so the chocolate sections build up with genuine shading rather than flat colour. The bite reveals blush-pink fill stitched in a different angle to the outer coating, which is a nice lil detail once its hooped up. Stitch counts go from 13,153 on the smallest size right up to 37,593 on the largest, so this is not a quick stitch, its complex. Use a cutaway stabiliser on jersey or any stretch fabric, the satin outlines round each almond need it to stay crisp. Pop it centred on a canvas apron or try it on denim for a bit of a retro ice-cream-parlour vibe. Skip topping on dense cotton canvas, you wont need it.

My friend who runs a small baked-goods stall put the 3.47 inch wide version on a set of waffle-weave cotton kitchen towels last August and said the espresso-dark outlines came out better than she expected on that tight weave. And honestly that dont suprise me because the bobbin tension on cotton is alot more forgiving than on fleece. Hoop tight, keep your jump stitches trimmed, and the almonds stitch up clean every time.

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