{"product_id":"christmas-lights-hand-heart","title":"Christmas Lights Hand Heart Embroidery Design, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorked on this one last november after noticing how many people search for christmas designs that also carry a love or warmth message without being sappy about it. I get messages every year from customers asking for exactly this kind of thing. Two hands are positioned with fingertips touching at the top and wrists angled out, so the gap between them reads as a clean heart shape. The hands themselves are solid satin in plain black, no skin detail, which keeps the silhouette reading fast at any size. Draped across the fingers and looping down around the wrists is a string of christmas light bulbs, each one a small satin oval with a little black cap, in six colours: blue, red, green, yellow, orange and purple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven colours in total and the layout is portrait so the design is taller than it is wide. Smallest size is 1.76 by 3.51 inches at about 7,900 stitches, largest is 3.76 by 7.51 inches just over 16,000 stitches. Density is 568 stitches per square inch, solid but not crushing. The portrait orientation makes this one really useful for vertical placement, think a towel border, a stocking panel, a sleeve stripe or a tote bag front. Five sizes in the file so theres no need to manually resize, youre covered from pocket to full panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hand-heart silhouette is what makes this different from a regular christmas lights design. its a gesture people actually do in real life and the christmas lights wrapping around it makes it feel seasonal without just being another wreath or tree. Works on white, cream, pale grey, soft red or forest green backgrounds, and Im pretty sure navy looks great too if youre going for a darker base. Woven cotton, canvas, fleece, felt and sweatshirt fabric all stitch up fine. Avoid very stretchy knits without a stabilising topping layer because the column satin on the hand outline can wander on unstable fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse medium cutaway, hoop firm. With 7 colour stops lay out your thread spools in sequence before you start so you dont fumble the order mid-run. Any colour on the wrong bulb is going to look odd, and if that happens on your first run just message me and I can talk through re-sequencing the file for your machine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45916237365398,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/ChristmasLightsHandHeartEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1764732036","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/christmas-lights-hand-heart","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}