Christmas Cat with Lights Embroidery Design, Holiday Cat Pattern, Instant Download

A round cartoon feline sitting in or tangled up with a string of christmas lights, the kind of pose that anyone who owns a cat recognises immediately. The bulbs along the wire are the best part of this design: they run in multi-colour fills, each one a separate colour in the sequence, which is what pushes the colour count to 6. White satin on the body, clean black outlines for the ears and face, green thread for the wire, and each individual bulb pulls its own colour stop. At density 500 the white satin sections have good coverage and sit flat on cotton or canvas.

Five sizes from 2.5 inches wide up to 6.5 inches, stitch counts from 4,894 at the smallest to 13,611 at the top end. The multi-colour bulb sequence means youll get more thread changes than on a simple text design, but each bulb stop is a small satin fill so the change goes fast. Pair tearaway with medium cutaway for anything other than firm stable cotton; the wide white satin torso has enough density to shift light fabric without support underneath. Avoid dark base fabrics unless you run a white topping layer, youll need that contrast for the white sections to show properly.

Cat owners who buy this dont usually want to stitch it once, Ive had people order it and come back for the next christmas with a different project in mind. A customer last december stitched the 4-inch on a cream felt stocking front and said the coloured bulbs against the light felt made it look like an illustration rather than embroidery. Stitch the large 6.5-inch across a tote panel, or use the 2.5-inch on a small fabric ornament blank. Pair those colourful glass bulbs with a charcoal or navy base fabric and the lights genuinely look like theyre glowing against the dark ground. Best on a firmly hooped cotton or denim where the directional satin sections can settle evenly without drag.