Cool Donkey with Glasses Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This donkey is not impressed by whatever youre doing. Its looking directly at you through a pair of oversized square glasses and the expression is somewhere between professorial and deeply unimpressed. The ears are massive and take up the top third of the design, flaring out wide, which adds to the whole thing. Its a face crop with no neck or body, just the full donkey face filling the hoop.

Thirteen colours do alot of work here. The fur is built from warm browns, tans and a grey-white muzzle zone, with fine satin stitching running in different directions across the forehead, cheeks and muzzle to suggest the coarse donkey coat. The crosshatch-style outline lines around the nose and lips are particularly good, they add that illustration-detail realism you dont normally see unless its a really well-digitised portrait design. The glasses frames are orange with an inner detail ring and orange-tinted lens fills suggesting actual glass.

50k stitches on the top 7-in size, 20k on the 3.5-inch. Dense. Use heavy cutaway stabiliser and hoop firm. The muzzle zone has long satin runs that need backing to sit flat. Add topping film on anything with texture. Stitch on cream, white, grey, navy or black and the detail reads well on all of them because the outline stitching is strong enough to hold anywhere. I had a customer stitch this on a grey tote bag last year and said she gets stopped in supermarkets by people wanting to know where she bought it. Skip anything patterned as your base because the glasses detail is too fine to read against a busy background.