Festive Christmas Light Tree Embroidery Design, Holiday Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Theres no green tree here. The tree shape is formed entirely by the string lights themselves, looping wire runs in a triangle and small bulb shapes hang off at intervals in 7 colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white, and a warm gold for the star on top. At density 475 the bulb fills are quite solid even at smaller sizes, they dont look like coloured dots, they look like actual bulbs. Six sizes from 2.5 inches wide full 7.5 reach gives you a lot of placement flexibility.

Digitised in Wilcom with each colour strand mapped to a separate thread change, so youre doing 7 stops total. My niece asked me last christmas to put this on a set of tea towels for her kitchen and the wire-line look on cream linen was genuinely something. She did the 5-inch version. The stitch count at the largest size is 19,760 which isnt huge for 7 colours, so the runs stay quick.

Use tear-away stabiliser on woven linen and cotton. Avoid hooping stretch fabric without cutaway backing or the wire lines will wave. Add topping film on terry cloth so the bulb satin shapes dont sink. Best colour combination Ive seen is the standard rainbow bulbs on a black sweatshirt, the bulbs pop against dark fabric in a way they just dont on white. Pick the 2.5-inch size for pocket placement or stocking cuffs. Pair this with a dark stabiliser colour on the bobbin side so backing thread doesnt show through the light wire runs.