Colorful Sailboat Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This one is for the nursery crowd and the kids-room folks. Its a cartoon sailboat, proper cheerful, with pale blue sails that catch the light differently depending on thread sheen, a yellow hull with a brown stripe along the waterline, a bold cobalt blue horizontal band across the lower sail, a lil red flag at the top, and soft teal waves rolling underneath. Not a design that takes itself seriously. Thats a good thing.

11 colour changes and 5 sizes. Smallest is 3.2 inches wide by 3.5 tall at 14127 stitches. Largest is 6.8 inches wide by 7.5 tall at 39751. Density is 783 which is quite high, so it needs a proper firm stabiliser no matter what fabric youre putting it on. On knit babygrow or stretchy jersey particularly, use a cutaway backing and a water-soluble topping because youll get distortion without it. The satin borders between the colour zones are what gives the design that clean illustrated look, but they need the fabric sitting completely still while they lay down. My niece asked me to Stitch the medium piece on a cotton nursery cushion last spring and we used a medium-weight woven cutaway on the cotton cover and it came out perfect.

Stitch it on babygrows, nursery cushions, kids tote bags, or a quilted blanket panel. The 11 colour changes dont take long once theyre loaded: water, hull, sail sections, stripe, flag. If your machine handles colour stops well it moves through cleanly. Swap the yellow hull for mint, change the sail to lavender. Add a name underneath and it becomes a personalised birth gift. The zones are clearly separated so recolouring is straightforward on any machine.