Elegant Winter Reindeer Embroidery Design, Instant Download

A proper standing stag in profile with tall branching antlers, head turned just slightly, framed inside a swirling pale azure ribbon decorated with little orange snowflake bursts. Four colours in total, chocolate brown body, warm orange belly and snowflake bursts, sky blue ribbon swirls and powder blue accent dots, with a few black detail stitches for the eye and nose. The ribbon frame loops around like a wintry wind blowing snow round the deer.

I digitised the lot in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with proper underlay on the brown body fill so the colour stays smooth on cotton. Density sits at 391 stitches per square inch which keeps the brown fill rich without bricking on jersey. Stitch range starts at 9,697 on the smallest 3.51-inch hoop and climbs to 21,792 on the 7.51-inch large one. Five hoop sizes total, plus 8 machine file formats in the zip including the Tajima master.

One customer wrote me last november saying she stitched the 4-inch version on a cream linen pillow for her grandma's holiday gift and the colour came out softer and more painterly than the preview made it look. Heres the bit you need to know though, the orange snowflakes have lil thin arms reaching out to the blue ribbon so you need topping film on textured fabric like a knit sweater or the arms wont read properly when finished.

Stitch the bigger sizes on smoother cottons or canvas for best colour separation. Avoid heavy fleece for the smallest size cos the orange arms get swallowed by the pile. Pair this one with cream, sage, navy, or charcoal grey fabric where the brown stag pops without competing with the background. Add medium tearaway behind a cotton tee, swap to cutaway behind a knit sweatshirt. Ping me if your machine throws odd jumps on the ribbon swirls, ill rebuild the path order.