Christmas Skull with Santa Hat Embroidery Design, Instant Download

My sister stitched this onto a black hoodie back in november and reckoned she'd got about 3 compliments on it before she'd even left the house. The skull's big and front-facing, the kind of design that reads from across the room. Whats clever about it is the Christmas lights strung along the hat brim, small oval bulbs in red, green, orange, yellow, and one purple one, and then the same bulb motif repeats inside the eye sockets so you get a red glow in the left eye and a green glow in the right. It's not something you'd notice at first glance, but once you see it, you see it.

Back it with a medium tearaway or cutaway depending on your base. The black coverage in this design is quite heavy, over 23,000 stitches at the mid 4 in alone, so on lighter cotton tees you'll want to make sure your stabiliser is giving proper support. Use a tearaway on stable wovens, switch to cutaway on anything knit. 4 sizes, from 4.5 inches top 7.5 size wide, the largest sitting around 75,000 total stitches. Stitch a test square on a scrap before committing to your good fabric on the bigger sizes.

8 colors in the sequence: white base, grey mid-tones for the skull shading, red, dark red, a little bit of green, orange/gold, purple, and a dominant black outline. The snowflake shapes scattered around the edges are stitched in black only so they dont fight with the colour in the hat and lights. Thats pretty much it for the color setup, its straightforward to thread up.