Christmas Chickens on Lights Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Three or four round plump chickens stacked vertically, each one perched on the wire of a string of christmas lights. Bodies are cream and tan with golden yellow beaks and combs, each bird facing a slightly different direction so they dont all look identical. The christmas light bulbs run down the wire between them and below the stack, round chunky bulb shapes in red, green, orange and blue.

Its a narrow tall design, which is what makes it interesting. The vertical format works well on a sleeve, a long stocking panel or a tall tote bag. On a sweatshirt front it reads like the birds are just hanging out on the lights which is the whole joke. Combs are bright red, small and upright, which draws your eye up through the column from the lights at the bottom.

Drop the tall 7.51-inch version down the front of a dark green or navy sweatshirt for a farmhouse christmas look. Pop it along a sleeve for a quirky detail thats more interesting than a stripe. Use it on a linen apron bib for a backyard chicken keeper who bakes. Farm people go a bit wild for this one. Chicken keepers, country-living accounts, farmhouse-style home crafters. One customer wrote me last fall, she ordered it for her whole homesteading group as christmas gifts and came back for an extra download the next day because a friend wanted one too.

Best on dark fabric where the cream bodies and the multicolour lights both show up cleanly. Forest green, deep navy or burgundy all work. On lighter fabric the cream birds blend a bit, so aim for mid-to-dark tones. These run narrow, 1.99 to 3.32 inches wide, so they wont dominate a garment and the tall format means you need vertical space more than horizontal.

Four sizes with heights from 4.51 up to 7.51 inches. Stitch range is 16,297 to 27,246 and 11 colours total. Density is just over 1,000, so it sits well on medium-weight cotton or canvas without puckering. Use a standard tearaway stabiliser, the density doesnt call for cutaway. my main digitising tool kept the individual light bulb fills tight and the feather texture reads on the chicken bodies even at the small end.