Colorful Rooster Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Alot of rooster designs I see are either too cartoony or too flat. This one sits somewhere between illustration and realistic, the kind of thing that actually looks like a rooster when you step back from it. The feather work is the main event, each section stitched in a separate directional satin layer so they overlap naturally and the whole bird has actual depth to it.

Its got 8 colors: black for the outer tail, teal for the body feathers behind the wing, dark red for the chest, orange for the neck hackles, yellow for an accent band, blue along the wing, brown for the legs, and a bright red comb on top. Digitised in digitising tools, density at 684 which keeps the satin from going stiff on mid-weight fabrics. The stitch direction in those tail feathers is what makes it, they actually look like feathers when the light catches them right.

use medium cutaway underneath for shirts or jackets. On heavier canvas or denim, a light cutaway is enough. Stitch the 3.51 x 3.44 inch version on a front pocket for a subtle accent. Run the largest at 7.51 x 7.36 with 37,793 stitches and its a full back-of-jacket piece where the teal feather detail really opens up. Pick a mid-weight canvas apron and it owns the whole front panel on its own.

A customer who does farm market merch dropped me a note last autumn saying this was the one design that made their aprons sell out 2 weekends in a row. They ran it on canvas in the mid-size. That doesnt suprise me honestly, its got the right kind of energy for that kind of crowd.

Add it to a kitchen apron, a canvas tote, or a denim jacket and youre done.