
Heres a milk chocolate ice cream bar with strawberry and banana drips, the kinda dessert illustration you would see on a kawaii cafe menu chalkboard. Brown rounded rectangle body, pink sauce dripping along the top curve, yellow drip running down the side, orange wooden stick poking out the bottom. The brown body takes up most of the stitches, 1,407 of the 2,627 on the medium size, the colour fills do all the heavy lifting on this design.
Four colours: pink strawberry sauce, banana yellow, orange stick, chocolate brown. Three colour changes, 8 trims. Stitch count spans 1,386 on the smallest 1.51-inch height up to 8,442 at the largest 5.51-inch. Density is 641 which puts the chocolate firmly in solid-fill territory, you can see the directional stitching across the brown without it looking like a flat patch. I digitised it in my professional tool and ran the underlay perpendicular to the satin direction on the cocoa fill, the chocolate ends up with dimension rather than reading as one flat slab.
This one is sweet for cafe owners and dessert bloggers, I sell a bunch of these into small bakery merchandise lines, one customer ordered the 4-in chest on a hot pink canvas apron for her ice cream truck staff last june. Use medium cutaway under cotton tee fabric because the dense brown body will tunnel into stretchy jersey, the cutaway holds it flat without puckering around drips.
Stitch on cream, mint, or pale pink cotton for max contrast, the chocolate brown reads warm on those backgrounds. Avoid stitching on brown fabric, you lose all the body shape. Pop the smallest 1.5-in chest for a hot pink polo pocket. Hoop with extra topping under any pile or terry fabric so the drips dont sink. Email me if your machine misreads the drip-trim sequence and Ill resend the file with the trims merged.
What people are using this design for
A starting point. The design works for plenty more than just this list, this is what folks have stitched it onto most.
- ice cream shop staff apron pocketStitch the 4-inch chocolate popsicle on a pink canvas apron pocket using tearaway stabiliser for an ice cream shop crew uniform
- bakery cafe team t-shirt motifRun the chest 3.5 on a cream cotton tee chest with medium cutaway for a small bakery team shirt
- valentine's day dessert gift tag fabricPop the smallest 1.51-inch design on a fabric gift tag for a valentines day dessert hamper or chocolate gift box
- kawaii kitchen tea towel setSew the 5-inch popsicle on a white kitchen tea towel in kawaii thread colours for a cafe-themed homewares set
- kids dessert-themed birthday teePlace the 3-inch motif on the front of a kids birthday tee in mint cotton for a dessert-themed party
- summer cooler bag canvas patchAdd the 4.5-inch popsicle to a canvas cooler bag side panel and the brown reads warm against natural canvas
- girl pyjama top chest detailDrop the 2.5-inch chocolate design on a pink terry pyjama top chest with mesh wash-away topping
- cafe menu chalkboard fabric banner accentStitch the largest 5.51-inch version on a fabric banner panel as an accent on a cafe menu board display
Dimensions
5 sizes included. Stitch counts shown for the largest colorway.
| Size (in) | Stitches |
|---|---|
| 1.51 × 0.65 in | 1,386 |
| 2.51 × 1.09 in | 2,627 |
| 3.51 × 1.52 in | 4,203 |
| 4.51 × 1.96 in | 6,123 |
| 5.51 × 2.39 in | 8,442 |
Files & Formats
Eight machine formats included in one zip. Whichever your machine reads, its in the pack.








Plus a color chart for thread matching. See full format guide.
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Reyazul Masud Riham, hand-drawing every design on this site
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