Decorative Christmas Tree Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Played with this one for a while trying to get the tree to read as a tree without actually filling it in. Its all implied, built up from layered botanical sprigs instead of a solid green triangle. Upper half uses short-branched fir-style sprigs with individual needles. Mid section switches to wider holly-type leaves and clusters of small round red berries. A curling black ribbon line sweeps through the lower third, looping once before settling into the base. Five tiny wrapped gift shapes sit across the bottom edge, black outline boxes with little bows. Gold star on top, small gold star scatter throughout.

Five colours, density of only 452 stitches per square inch, so it stitches out light and fast. The open construction means it breathes well on fabric and wont pucker a finer weave the way a dense solid-fill tree might. Smallest size is 3.51 by 2.07 inches, biggest goes to 7.51 by 4.43. Five sizes in total so you can slot one onto a tea towel or scale it up to a full cushion front.

Linen works brilliantly here because the botanical shapes look at home against the natural texture. Light cream or natural ecru gives a sort of vintage print feel, its almost like a block-print. White cotton, pale sage and soft gold backgrounds all read well too. Try a dark background if you're after stronger contrast, the open sprigs pop well against charcoal or deep navy. Skip coarse weaves on the smaller sizes though, the individual berry shapes are tiny and they dont read properly on a rough surface.

A customer who does Christmas markets used three of these across a set of linen table runners. Stitch counts top out at 15,039 on the largest, so youre looking at pretty modest thread usage. Use a standard medium-weight tearaway or cutaway for stable wovens. Float a topping layer on linen to stop those fine branch outlines sinking into the weave. Reach out a chat if anything looks off in the sew-out.