Deer Fishing Hook Silhouette Embroidery Design, Instant Download

So heres the layout. Up top you got a big buck head facing slightly left with full antlers spreading wide. The buck flows downward into a giant fishing hook silhouette that curves around the bottom half of the design. Inside the curve of the hook theres a tiny forest scene tucked in. Pine trees, a lone angler standing on the bank casting his rod into the water, a couple of ducks flying overhead, and a bass leaping out of the water near the hook tip. The whole thing is one continuous black silhouette with the inner scene done in negative space cutouts.

Single colour black thread. 4 sizes from 4.5 inches wide at 16,959 stitches up to 7.53 inches wide at 32,728 stitches. Density runs heavy at 929 because the buck head and hook body are mostly solid fill, the negative-space forest scene reduces overall stitch load but the perimeter outline is dense. I digitised this in industry software with directional satin on the antler tines so they hold their shape and proper feathered fill on the animal coat edges. Theres no escape stitching, every transition is short-stitched clean.

One customer who works a bait-and-tackle shop in colorado ordered the top 7.5 version last fall for a bunch of hat-back panels he sells alongside fishing line and lures. He told me the design held up through a year of customer wear with no thread breakage, the heavy fill basically armoured the patches. Hes ordered three more times since. The 5-inch fits a standard 6-panel trucker hat back perfectly, the 4.5-inch fits a left-chest pocket on a flannel shirt.

Stitch best on cream cotton, oatmeal linen, olive flannel, beige canvas, washed denim, or natural twill. Avoid black or dark navy cause the black thread blends right in. Pop heavy cutaway behind cotton and canvas, switch to two layers of medium cutaway for hat backs cause the curved seam needs extra stability. Youll want a 75/11 sharp needle and slow the run to 600 spm because the dense satin on the antlers needs careful registration around the tine forks. Set a topper of water-soluble film for any brushed surface like flannel cause the deer fur lines get swallowed otherwise.