Colorful Mama Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Five rows of the word MAMA stacked directly on top of each other, each one in a different colour and all in the same fat retro bubble font. The letters are big and round with thick black outlines and a small heart tucked into one of the letters per row, which you have to look for the first time but once you spot it you cant not see it.

Reading top to bottom: deep red, hot pink, then the middle row which is the one that makes this design, it's the same bubble letters but filled with a leopard print texture in tan and black. Then magenta-purple below that, and terracotta orange at the bottom. The colour order shifts from warm to cool and back to warm so the whole stack reads as one balanced block even though every row is completely different.

Its the kind of thing you see on sweatshirts at every mothers day craft fair this time of year, people always seem to be hunting it down in the weeks running up to may. Seven colours and 7 changes so the machine is busy, and the stitch count is high at the bigger sizes, around 57k at 7-inch. That density is what gives the letters that satisfying solid puffed look when it comes off the machine. My niece ran a batch of eight of these on black crewnecks last month and sold every single one at a school fair before midday.

Stitch on a dark background and it really sings. Pop it on a black or charcoal sweatshirt and all five colours hold without competing with each other. Use a mid-weight cutaway stabiliser on the back. And dont skip the backing, at 57k stitches the dense letters will push through light tearaway and you'll lose that puffed look on the first wash.