Elegant Beach Lady Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Summer beach bags, terry towels, holiday totes, thats when people pull this one out. She's reclining on a teal beach towel, one leg crossed, a wide-brim cream hat shading half her face with a little pearl-band detail at the crown. The hair's dark brown and wavy, the lips are a small pop of red and the swimsuit is a clean white one-piece. Nothing overdone about it. The whole thing reads like a fashion sketch from a boutique resort catalogue.

I drew this with smooth directional satin stitches so the fills follow the body curves, giving it that polished fashion-illustration feel rather than a cartoonish look. The teal towel underneath uses a flat tatami fill with a couple of horizontal underlay lines visible, which I think is kinda what makes the base feel grounded. At around the 4.5 inch width it fits cleanly hooped on a market tote or a flat linen pouch. A customer last week ordered it for a whole set of summer beach bag gifts and said the skin tones came out beautifully on natural cotton. At the larger 7.4 inch end the detail in the hat brim and the hair texture realy shines on heavier fabrics.

Use a cutaway stabiliser if youre going on jersey or stretchy fabrics. The satin density here is high enough that a tearaway alone wont hold the edges flat. Pop a topping film over terry cloth or fluffy fleece so the stitches dont sink in. The peach skin tones are done in just a couple of thread colours so your bobbin count stays low, which makes colour changes pretty quick to manage in a run.

Stitch the towel base first, then skin fills, then hat and hair last. That order helps avoid any pull distortion on the lighter cream areas. Pair it with a coordinating anchor rope or seashell design if you want a whole summer collection feel across a set of linen napkins or beach pouches.

Message me a photo and happy to tweak the colours if they dont suit.