Cute Dog Cat Mouse Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Cute dog, cat and mouse, three of em in a row with the biggest on the left and the smallest on the right. The puppy is a cream and warm brown patched spaniel type, sat square with those big floppy ears, wearing a blue fabric collar with a red heart shaped tag dangling off it. Every patch of colour on the coat is a separate fill area so the colour blocking reads like a proper illustration, not just a shape dump.

Kitten in the middle is a blue-grey tabby, sitting up straight with the tail curled round the base. Tabby stripes run as directional fill lines across the coat, its not printed, the stitch angle itself makes the stripe appear, which is what sets professional digitising apart from amateur work. Mouse on the far right is the smallest of the three, dark charcoal body, stood upright on tiny feet, big round pale pink ears, same wide blue eyes as the others.

Eleven colours total, density at 919 per square inch, and the largest version runs nearly thirty thousand stitches. Thats a solid project on a single-needle machine but the stitch paths are efficient, no unnecessary jumps between the three characters so thread breaks are minimal. Smallest size fits at two by three and a half inches with twelve thousand stitches, which is plenty for a small label or tag.

Use cotton quilting fabric, felt panels, or pre-quilted blanket fabric. Pop a firm medium cutaway stabiliser underneath, and float a light water-soluble topping on anything with a surface nap. Use a 75/11 embroidery needle and drop your tension half a notch for the finer eye areas so the satin fill lays flat. Skip stretchy knit fabrics, youre asking for trouble with eleven colours on an unstable base, the registration shifts between character sections and the eyes go off-centre.

I get orders for this kind of animal trio a lot around gift-giving time. Last December quite a few customers ordered it specifically for bib sets, stitching one animal per bib with the childs name below in a simple font. Its not complicated to set up and it looks genuinely handmade, which is the whole point.