{"product_id":"christmas-chicken-2","title":"Christmas Chicken Embroidery Design V2, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eIts a chicken. Fully decked out for christmas. Warm golden-brown body with proper directional feather fills running along the breast and wing. Red wattle and comb on the head, santa hat sitting slightly askew on top. And then wrapped all the way around the body is a tangled mess of fairy lights, the wire looping in every direction with colourful round bulbs poking out in yellow, blue, red, teal and purple. The chicken looks completely unbothered by this situation. Thats what makes it funny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine colours in this one, which is a lot for a chicken but the multicolour lights require individual bulb fills in 5 different colours on top of the bird body colours. At 35,424 stitches at the 7.5 build size its the most complex christmas farm animal design in my collection by stitch count. The feather fills use dense directional rows that change angle across the body to build up that layered look, kinda like the way real feathers overlap. The smallest size at 3.5 inches only needs 13,055 stitches which is very managable on any mid-range machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicken keepers and farm folk genuinely love this. I get a lot of messages from people with backyard flocks who want to put something chicken-related on christmas aprons and tees that doesnt look like a cartoon. This one has realistic enough feathers to satisfy them but the fairy lights make it funny enough that non-chicken people get it too. Really good for holiday market stall merchandise if youre in the farm or rural gift space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest on cream or oatmeal cotton, the golden-brown feather fills need a pale ground. Apron fronts, tote bags, flannel shirt pockets, kitchen towels. Cutaway stabiliser on knit fabrics, tearaway works on woven cotton and canvas. Slow the machine down on the light bulb fills, theres alot of colour changes and small fills that benefit from a lower speed setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoop tight on an even-weave fabric and the feather directions will stay lined up across the whole body. If any of the light bulbs stitch too small or lose shape at the edges, check bobbin tension first, that usually fixes it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46259453690006,"sku":null,"price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/ChristmasChickenMachineEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1771750211","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/christmas-chicken-2","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}