{"product_id":"curly-hair-woman-face","title":"Curly Hair Woman Face Embroidery Design, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne colour, all black, and the whole stitch design works because of the shape. Its one of those things that sounds too simple until you see it finished. The hair takes up most of the frame, a huge cloud of tight spiral curls fanning out from crown to shoulders. Round glasses sit square on her face, the lens area filled with a slightly lighter crosshatch fill that reads as a glass-reflection effect in thread. The collar line is a clean minimal outline so the hair and face do all the heavy lifting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe curl detail is really the thing. Each spiral is a small coiled stitch path running in a different direction to its neighbour, so the whole dark mass of hair reads as textured and three-dimensional even though it is a single black thread colour. The shoulders use a dense crosshatch fill to push them back into shadow, which lifts the face and glasses forward visually. The stitch direction alone creates value contrast where most designs would use colour changes, and thats an impressive bit of digitising work on a single-colour piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStitch range runs from just over 15,000 on the small end up to 40,443 on the full nine-sizes largest. Use a medium to heavy cutaway stabiliser and hoop a woven cotton or denim rather than knit fabric. Dense tatami fills on a stretchy base will pull the fabric inward and distort the curl outline. Dont hoop knit or jersey without a firm cutaway backer. Slow your machine speed on the curl section if yours tends to run hot, and use a fresh sharp needle to keep the dense fill clean. A customer who wore the sweatshirt version to a craft fair last autumn said strangers kept stopping to ask what the portrait was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePick a light or mid-tone background so black reads clearly. Pale cream, natural canvas, slate blue, dusty pink or a warm burnt orange all work. Skip black or very dark fabric, the black thread simply wont read against a dark surface. Single colour means zero thread changes and its a straightforward stitching session once the machine starts running.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine sizes, from a small 3 inch tall version up to the full 7.5 inch wide panel size. Use the contact page if anything stitches out of line and the stitch file will get checked over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46352679829654,"sku":null,"price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/CurlyHairWomanFaceEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1776672644","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/curly-hair-woman-face","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}