Christmas Lights Bow Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Honestly this bow is what every christmas tote bag needs. Its a big outlined ribbon bow, drawn in clean black satin stitch with no inner fill, so the cloth shows right through the loops. Two ribbon loops sit at the top with the centre knot in the middle, and two long ribbon tails flow down below. Looped all the way around and through the bow is a string of holiday lights, those classic teardrop C9 bulbs in red, green, blue and yellow, wired together with a thin black cord.

I drew this for one of my customers in october last year, she was customising a stack of christmas stockings for her grandkids and wanted something kinda kinda different from the usual filled bow. The open-outline style keeps the stitch count lower than youd think for this size, the bulbs are the densest bits and they sit at very nice satin density so the colours read bold even on smaller hoops.

Pop this on cream calico or grab natural linen if ya want that rustic farmhouse christmas look. White or red cotton tea towels also work really well. Avoid heavy textured fleece since the open ribbon outlines just kinda vanish against deep nap. Pre-treat the cloth with a starch spray first if its a slippy fabric.

Those bulbs are nine separate colour stops, well one for each shade plus the black wire. So your machine will need to handle around 10 colour changes on this one. Grab a medium-weight cutaway, the long tails dragging down need that support so they dont pucker. A topping film helps when ya run this on terry towel.

Stitch counts run 14275 at the small end (3.5 inch wide) up to 26195 across the largest version which sits at 7.5 inch wide. Skip the polyester thread on the bulbs, rayon catches light way better and makes the lights feel lit. Bug me on chat if something stitches funny on your end.