Coffee Weather Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

A woman who runs a small craft-fair stall wrote me last autumn about this Coffee Weather collegiate design, she'd hooped the 5 inch version onto a cream linen apron and said she had a queue at her table by 10am. Thats the kind of reaction it gets. Its two lines of block varsity text, "COFFEE" up top in a big arched row of satin-fill capitals outlined with a sharp white keyline so the walnut-brown pops off light fabric. "WEATHER" sits straight underneath in a shorter, heavier slab serif, giving the whole thing that classic letterman-jacket layout.

And the stitch work inside is better than it looks from a thumbnail. Each letter column runs at a slight diagonal, so the satin has directional movement rather than sitting flat and plasticky. There's a proper tatami underlay under the fill, which keeps the letters from sinking into fleece or terry cloth. At the full 7.5 inch width the stitch count hits 12,764 and gives it serious density, the smaller 3.5 inch clocks in around 5,170 stitches so nine times out of ten youve got exactly the right size for the surface youre working with.

Use cutaway stabiliser on anything with stretch, jersey sweatshirts, fleece pullovers, cotton knits. Tearaway tends to distort the arch on soft fabrics, dont risk it. Hoop your stabiliser and fabric together firmly and centre the arch so both lines sit level. Skip the topping film on tight woven canvas or denim, the satin density sits clean without it. On terry cloth a layer of water-soluble topping stops the loops catching on the bobbin thread during the satin fill sections.

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