Festive Holiday Ghost Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This one is for the people who cant fully commit to just halloween or just christmas. Its a ghost, full classic sheet-ghost silhouette with those oval black eyes, but christmas fully claimed it. Literally. Santa hat with a sprig of holly on top. A wrapped gift tucked under one arm. And that whole spooky silhouette has christmas light strings tangled all over it, the kind where the bulbs go round in cherry red and forest green and the little star-shaped ones in gold scatter around the edges.

Eight colours make this work. That whole body runs mostly in a warm cream-tan tone, not pure white, which gives it that old-illustration feel. Red does the Santa hat and some of the light bulbs. Green handles the holly leaves and the other set of bulbs. Pale yellow for the scattered stars. A light teal strip sits inside the hat as a thin accent. Black carries all the outlines and the eye fill. The gift wrapping uses those same holiday colours in a small striped block. Actually its only 8 colours but they get reused with the Wilcom stops doing double duty on the light sequences.

Five sizes from 3.5 inches up to 7.5 inches, stitch counts from 17k at the small end up to 41k at the largest. Dense because of all those christmas lights wrapping the silhouette, each bulb shape needs its own satin fill and outline. Use a cutaway stabiliser on cotton or linen, medium weight. Add topping on fleece or minky if youre running this on soft holiday fabric. Hoop firmly and keep thread tensions consistent throughout, the 134-plus trim count means the machine stops alot.

Stitch on white, cream, pale grey, or black. A customer emailed me to say they stitched the 4.5-inch onto the front of a black halloween-christmas crossover cushion and honestly I was jealous I didnt think of it first. Skip off-white or warm ivory because the ghost body blends into it. On black fabric, the cream fill really separates from the background and the composition reads clearly.