Christmas Pug Dogs with Candy Canes Embroidery Design, Holiday Pugs

A customer stitched a batch for her mums craft fair table back in december and stitched about two dozen 100% cotton tea towels in total. Sold out by 10am apparently. Its two pugs side by side, both with those squished pug faces, one in a red Santa hat on the left and the other rocking reindeer antlers and a round red nose. Crossed candy canes fill the background behind them and theres a small wrapped gift box sat between their feet with pine trees on either side. Its that heavy black outline sketch style that gives it the comic book feel, very graphic and reads well from a distance.

Pop a [medium-weight cutaway] under the hoop before you start because this design has real density. Nine colours in total and the stitch count climbs past seventy thousand at the largest size. The near-black dark grey takes the most thread doing the body of the left pug, then straight black handles all the outlining. The tan fawn for the right pug is a warm mid-brown, dont mistake it for orange. The red covers both the Santa hat and the candy cane stripes. Dont skip the white, it does the pompom and the pale base stripes on the canes.

Five sizes from about 3.25 inches up to nearly seven inches wide. Use the smaller end on pocket squares or tote corners, the larger ones for centre-front sweatshirt placement. Stitches out slower than it looks because of the density, so keep the speed moderate on a batch run. Works on canvas, denim and most stable wovens. Use a thin topper on fleece so the outlines stay sharp on the pile.