Elegant Flying Bats Halloween Embroidery Design V2, Instant Download

Five or six bat silhouettes caught mid-flight, spread across the design space at different angles and sizes to give that scattered swarm feeling. None of them are cartoonish, the wings are proper bat wing shapes with the pointed tips and the curved membrane between, and the bodies are small relative to the wings. The density is deliberately set at 281 stitches per square inch which gives the silhouette a clean crisp edge without the fill pulling on lighter fabrics.

This runs as a single colour job from start to finish. No colour changes, no thread swaps, just thread up once and let the machine go. Email me if your machine asks for a colour change mid-file, that shouldnt happen, and Ill send you a corrected version. At the 3.19 by 3.5-inch size the stitch count is only 5,167 which is genuinely fast, under 3 minutes on most home machines. The large 6.84 by 7.5-inch version reaches 14,428 stitches but still finishes well under 10 minutes. Last October I had a customer batch-stitch this on 12 tote bags in a single evening for a Halloween market stall, and she said the quick turnaround made it the practical choice.

Use a cutaway stabiliser even though the density is low, the wide wing spans can shift during stitching on woven fabrics without a firm base. Dont skip the underlay on smooth cotton either. If youre running this on velvet or fine fleece use a dissolving topping to stop the satin fill sections from sinking into the pile. Stitch on black cotton, dark navy, or charcoal grey where the bat silhouettes become properly atmospheric rather than just decorative.

Add the 5-in chest size on a jacket back panel, it fills the space without competing with the seams. Pair it with a ghost design on the chest for a full Halloween set. Email me if anything looks off in the file.