Christmas Skeleton Girl with Coffee Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

After a long week of test stitches I finally got this one dialled in. Smiling skeleton girl with a messy hair bun wrapped up in a red rose bandana, red heart-shaped sunglasses, ribcage cracked open with sprigs of holly greenery inside, and shes holding a steaming red coffee mug right in the centre. Strands of multicolour C9 fairy lights tangle through her arms and fingers, dangling off both hands like shes about to hang them on a tree. The whole vibe is christmas exhaustion plus caffeine plus dont talk to me till after my third cup.

Eight colours total, seven colour changes. Black bone outline, off-white skull and ribcage fill, red for the bandana roses and mug, golden brown for the hair bun, green for the holly leaves, and then four bulb colours running on the fairy lights, red, blue, yellow and green. Smallest 4.49 inch size sits at 17,749 stitches, the largest 7.47 inch lands at 27,950, density up at 498 cause this is a heavy fill character design with a lotta layered elements. I digitised it in professional digitising software and the bone outline runs as proper directional satin over a structured tatami underlay so it holds shape through every fill underneath.

This one needs a hoop with proper backing. A customer ordered the 6-inch size for a girlfriends christmas eve sweatshirt and used two layers of medium cutaway plus a poly topping cause the sweatshirt was a heavyweight fleece. She wrote me back later saying the receipient suprised her by wearing it three years running. Apparently the design held up perfect through the wash, just no high heat on the iron.

Best stitched on heavyweight black, charcoal, deep wine or hunter green ground fabrics where the bone fill really pops. Skip stretchy thin tees the design needs structure to register clean. Hoop with two layers medium cutaway minimum, drop topping on fleece, terry or sherpa. Run the smallest 4.49 inch size on a tote bag or apron front. The largest 7.47 inch lands inside a 5x7 hoop centred on a sweatshirt or hoodie front panel. Avoid 4x4 frames, theres too much detail to compress down that small. Big enough to read every element.