Cutest Reindeer of All Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Built around a reindeer face thats more attitude than cute. Two wide brown antlers spread out from either side at the top, satin-filled with that warm tan-brown colour. Below the antlers the reindeer's eyes peek through, two red teardrop shapes pointing inward, kinda like its doing a knowing look at you. Centred in the crown area sits a holly sprig with a couple of dark green leaves and small red berries, right where the forehead would be.

The lettering is the other big thing here. "Cutest" is written in a relaxed black cursive script just above the middle, then "REINDEER" comes in below in solid red block capitals that are wide, chunky and bold, the tallest part of the whole design. Below that "of all" is in small black cursive, like a subtitle. The contrast between the thin flowing script and the big block caps is what makes it work. And then around the outside youve got green dots strung together like a light string, with red teardrop bulbs hanging off the bottom. Plus a couple of small green stars scattered on the sides.

4 colours means 3 colour changes. Brown goes first for the antlers, then green for leaves and star accents, then red, then black finishes the lettering. Run them in order and it flows. One customer stitched the 6 inch face on a burgundy sweatshirt for her daughter last christmas and said the brown antlers actually read really well against dark fabric, which suprised her. Thats one of those happy accidents with a palette like this.

Use cutaway stabiliser on knits, medium weight. Tear-away on stable woven fabric. The satin-fill antlers need a flat dense underlay to hold the shape and stop the thread from sinking into fluffy fleece. Hoop firmly and dont skip the topping on velvet or terry if youre going that route. Ping me if youre getting registration issues on the eye shapes, its usually a hooping tension thing and Ive got it.