Christmas Ghost with Reindeer Embroidery Design, Instant Download

A ghost wearing a santa hat, dragging a little reindeer along with it. Thats the whole idea and it works completely. The ghost is done in a solid dark green fill with those hollow oval eyes cut through it, the scalloped hem waves at the bottom. The santa hat sits at a slight tilt on top, red fill with an orange pompom around the brim. Fairy lights hang off the ghost at different heights, each bulb a different colour, blue, red, yellow, green, strung on a thin stem stitch line. The reindeer next to it is small and round, white fill, black outline, orange bell collar at the neck and a red dot nose.

She sent me a photo last christmas of matching pyjama tops she'd made for her kids, the ghost on one and the reindeer on the other. Split the two characters across separate items and you've got a ready-made pair. 5 sizes, 2.73 inches wide at the smallest up to 5.85 inches, stitch counts from 10,289 to 27,452. Tape a piece of medium cutaway behind the fabric before you hoop it, the 7 colours mean a longer run time and the ghost fill section in particular needs stable backing. Dont use tear-away on anything stretchy with this one, it wont hold through the longer colour runs.

7 thread colours in the sequence, which sounds like a lot but each colour's got a clear job. Load dark green for the ghost body first, then white for the reindeer body, orange handles both the pompom ring and the bell collar, red covers the nose dot and the cap fill, then work through the individual fairy light colours. Keep your bobbin tension even through the fairy light section, those are short stitches and any slack shows. The black outline at the end is the longest single pass and it wraps the whole scene together.