Cute Christmas Panda with Santa Hat Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Its a lil panda sitting there with the biggest Santa hat you've ever seen on a bear. The hat takes up a good third of the whole design, drooping forward with a fluffy white pompom at the tip. The panda's face is all wide eyes and open mouth, the kind of expression thats equal parts surprised and delighted. Stabiliser-wise this one rewards your attention to hooping because the scratchy cross-hatch fill on the body is what gives it that illustrated storybook quality.

The colour build uses 8 threads: white for the eye patches and hat trim, 3 colours and nine distinct tonal steps across the body and face shading, a bold red hat body with a dark red shadow layer underneath, and black outlines. industry software took the colour sequencing and mapped each region so the bobbin threads dont show through on the lighter fills. At 51,875 stitches on the largest hoop the density is 1,120 per square inch, which means the design stitches faster than you'd expect for its visual complexity.

A customer who grabbed this for a kids birthday project stitched the 4.5-inch hoop onto a black sweatshirt and said the ivory patches on the face popped better than they hoped. On dark grounds the white areas need a solid underlay pass first so the body patches dont look grey or washed. Best to use a medium-weight cutaway stabiliser on fleece and sweatshirt material. On lighter cotton the tearaway holds fine for the mid-range sizes.

Pop this on a onesie for a baby shower gift, a tote for a panda-obsessed friend, or a kids cap for the school Christmas party. The 3.51-inch smallest size fits a standard cap front panel with room to spare. Avoid using hooping frames that are too loose because the dense hat section pulls as it builds and a wobbly hoop means misregistration on those eye patches.