Christmas Lights Tree Embroidery Design V2, Instant Download

Seven colours for what looks like a simple christmas tree, but all those colour changes are the lights. Green for the tree body itself, a dark outline thread, and then five separate bulb colours dotted across the branches: red, yellow, blue, orange, and a warm gold star at the top. The bulbs are small oval satin shapes, not round dots, more like the retro big-bulb style from old holiday photos rather than modern LED teardrops. It stitches out looking like a vintage greeting card.

Density sits at 270, which is low by design and thats intentional. The tree fill is open so the cotton or linen weave shows through underneath, and that texture suits the hand-made feel of the piece. Stitch counts run from 4913 on the 3.51-inch version up to 11392 on the 7.51-inch, so its a fast stitch by any measure. Pair no-show mesh on stable woven fabrics like cotton twill or flannel, cutaway on jersey or anything that stretches. Ive run this on a plain cotton tea towel in green thread and on a red flannel shirt pocket and both came out with that old-fashioned look I was going for. Dont add topping film on smooth cotton, the open density is part of what makes this look hand-digitised.

I get asked about this design every november from customers who batch-make holiday gifts. One customer last christmas stitched it across a set of 12 mini tote bags, one per day as an advent gift set, and said it was the design she reached for first because of how fast each run went. Add it to a cotton apron bib, a 4-inch fabric advent pocket, or a reusable flannel gift bag. Stitch one on a kitchen towel and pop it in a gift basket with a candle and its done. Pick your thread colours to match the 7-colour palette in the PDF for the cleanest colour-change sequencing during the run.