Christmas Light Border Embroidery Design, Holiday Light String Machine Embroidery, Instant Download

Drew this border one december when sister asked me for a long skinny christmas design she could run vertically down the front edge of an apron. So thats what this is. A tall thin column of classic c9 bulbs, the chunky teardrop kind, threaded along a thick black wire that loops and twists down the whole length. Five bulb colours rotating, red blue green yellow orange, each with a little white highlight dot painted on so they look glassy.

Six colours total, the five bulb shades plus black for the wire. Five sizes, the widths run 1.01 inch up to 2.16 inch and heights span 3.5 inch to 7.5 inch tall, this is a long narrow design not a square one. Stitch counts go 3,245 at smallest, 7,039 at largest. the digitising software digitised, Tajima format reference. The wire loops cross over themselves in spots so the digitising sequence matters, run it in the order I exported it.

Stitch on white, cream, or sage green if you want the bulbs to read brightly. Black or navy works too and gives a moody glowy look. Skip patterned cloth for sure, theres alot of detail in those bulb gradients. Hoop with cutaway stabiliser, the wire is a thin tatami and it dont like tearaway underneath. Pace the machine reasonably, theres lots of trims between bulb colours, atleast 15 on the 2-inch size. Use 40wt poly thread for proper saturation on the bulb fills.

One customer wrote me last november and she ran two repeats stacked on a christmas tree skirt outer edge, said it looked like a real strand draped around the bottom. The narrow shape makes it perfect for cuff bands, lanyard strips, ribbon trim, anywhere you need vertical movement. I get questions every christmas about whether this loops cleanly for repeats, it does, the top and bottom align so you can stack 2 or 3 vertically for taller items.

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