Colorful Baby Birds Embroidery Design, Instant Download

These four baby birds are very something. They're lined up on a brown wooden branch, squashed together shoulder to shoulder, and each one has a completely different colour scheme going on. Left bird is deep violet purple with a wild spiky crest exploding off the top of its head. Next one is steel blue with those same untamed feather tufts. Third bird is a warm peach-yellow with an almost fluffy halo of pale feathers. The rightmost bird is coral-salmon pink. All four of them have these massive round eyes with white highlight spots that make them look permanently suprised, little yellow beaks open in the same goofy expression.

The density on this one is genuinely high. We're talking 30k stitches on the small size and up to 76k on the biggest 7.5-inch version, which is alot of thread for a cartoon design. But its justified because the feather tufts are done in radiating satin columns and the body fills layer over one another to build that fluffy rounded shape. The shading on the blue bird especially has like 3 tonal layers working together. Stitch it slowly and it pays off. Nine sizes from 3.49 inches wide top 7.5.

I get orders from birding gift shops on these regularly, which always makes me smile because these birds arent remotely realistic but birding people have a great sense of humour about it. One shop ordered 40 of them last april on cream canvas tote bags for a spring birding festival they sponsor every year. Theyd sold out by midday. Really goes to show its not always about accuracy.

Stitch on white, cream, or pale grey fabric so all four colours pop. Black or dark fabric isnt ideal here because the design relies on the bright saturated fills reading against a light base, theyd just disappear. Pop the big 7.5-inch on a tote or pillow front. Use the smaller 3.49-inch on a baby onesie chest or a cushion corner. Give it a tearaway stabiliser on cotton, cutaway on anything stretchy.

Those wild crests and the layered body fills are the densest sections. Use a water-soluble topping on textured fabric like waffle or terry to stop the satin columns sinking. Hoop firm, keep tension even across the whole 7.5-inch width, and ease the speed for those radiating crest fills. Anything odd with the download just message me.