Color Pencils with Bow Embroidery Design, Teacher Gift Pattern

Heres the colored pencils with bow design and its 6 colours of pure back-to-school energy. Three sharpened pencils, two deep purple ones flanking a golden yellow one in the centre, all crossed in a tight bundle and tied at the middle with a coral pink ribbon bow. Last may a customer ordered 14 of these for an end-of-year teacher gift run on natural canvas totes and they sold out the same week.

The pencils sit at proper sharpener angles with the natural beige wood tips exposed, and the directional stitching down each shaft makes the wood grain actually read. Bottom of each pencil has a mint green eraser ferrule with a coral stripe band where the metal hits the wood. Its a tiny detail but it pulls the bow colour through the whole piece so the palette feels intentional.

Stitch on cream canvas, oatmeal linen, pale grey or soft sage for best contrast. The yellow pencil really wants light fabric to glow, and the coral bow pops against natural cottons. Skip dark navy or black, the wood-beige tips disappear and the satin yellow turns dingy. Skip patterned shirts too, the bundle silhouette wants a calm background.

Use mid cutaway behind on totes and apron canvas, and on knits like jersey tees drop a mesh wash-away topping so the satin fills dont sink. The bow has alot of layered satin column work so slow your machine on those sections, around 700 spm keeps the loops crisp without thread breaks. The 6 colour palette runs about 8 colour changes, you can simplify down to 4 if you skip the eraser stripe band.

I get messages every august from teachers asking which design holds up wash after wash on a tote, and this one does. The 5x7 hoop size sits dead-on for a tote chest panel, the 4-inch fits an apron pocket, and Ive seen it stitched onto a pencil case lid for a small art-class business. Drop me a line if the colour stops dont line up with your thread chart and Ill resend mapped to your brand.