Cute Cow in Santa Hat with Ornaments Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Front-on view of a round cartoon cow face wearing a red Santa hat cocked slightly to one side. The white pompom at the tip droops down to one ear. Black and white coat patches cover the forehead and one cheek, and the nose is that classic cow blush-pink oval with two wide nostrils. Hanging from one side is a looped strand of Christmas ornaments, three of them, in forest green, deep red, and gold, with little star toppers on each one.

Eight colours in the design and you can see all of them pulling weight. The hat is the brightest red, the baubles bring in the green and gold, and the pale pink muzzle softens the whole face so it doesnt read as flat cartoon but a bit more illustrated. Four sizes available, the smallest at 3.5 inches wide, the largest at 6.5, stitch counts running from about 16,000 up to 34,000.

He ordered the biggest size for matching Christmas tees for his daughters farmhouse birthday party, a customer told me last season. His daughter is completely obsessed with cows and they run a hobby farm, so the whole thing was spot on for them. Send me a photo if you stitch this one, I love seeing the farm animal designs on real fabric.

Run this on cream or white cotton and the black patches read really clean. Goes well on a burgundy tee if you want the red hat to blend into the fabric colour and let the cow face carry the piece. Use the smaller size on a kids apron or a festive tea cosy. Skip anything too stretchy, those small round bauble shapes need a stable base and cutaway stabiliser underneath to stitch evenly.

Eight-colour design means a few thread changes but embroidery software laid out the sequence cleanly so its not as tedious as it sounds. Tack down the bauble strand area first before stitching the round fills over the top. Keep the hat pompom last so the white satin sits bright on top of everything else. Dont rush the star toppers, theyre small but they finish the piece.