Farm Chickens Embroidery Design, Instant Download

8 colours, nine sizes, 2 farm chickens that look like actual chickens rather than cartoon mascots. One faces forward, head up and alert, the other has its head dipped like its mid-peck. The feathering is directional -- Wilcom ran the stitch angles to follow the natural feather growth from the wing edge down to the body, so the layered cream, rust, and terracotta fills have texture even at the smallest sizes.

Stitch range is 6,915 on the small end up to 20,204 on the largest, widths from 1.71 to 3.66 inches and heights from 3.5 all the way up to 7.5 inches. So its a tall narrow design -- think apron pocket or kitchen towel border rather than a wide chest panel. The 8 colour changes are sequenced chicken by chicken so you arent swapping bobbin mid-feather.

Customers email me about backyard chicken keepers all the time from people making kitchen gifts. Last spring a customer ordered the medium size for a set of 8 linen kitchen towels and told me they went out as wedding gifts for a couple who kept backyard chickens. She stitched them in cream on a natural sage linen which I wouldnt have thought of but the photos were gorgeous. Sage is not what ya think of for a country kitchen but it worked.

Best on natural linen, cotton twill, or canvas in neutral tones -- cream, sage, stone. Use cutaway stabiliser underneath for anything you plan to wash regularly, like kitchen linens or aprons. The feather detail needs a stable base to hold its shape through laundering. Add topping on linen to keep the directional fills from spreading into the weave. Skip dark fabric -- the warm rust and cream palette disappears on charcoal or black. Density at 736 is solidly medium, manageable on most home machines.