Festive Holly Berry Cluster Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Ping me if you want a design that reads christmas immediately and this is it. Thirteen berries piled into a dome cluster, three big veined leaves fanned out behind them, the whole thing sitting on a single diagonal stem at the base. Its alot more berry than leaf which is exactly whats makes it pop. Customers looking for impact on a large surface gravitate to this one over the smaller sprigs, its a proper mound of colour.

Density is 856 in the Wilcom file, which is higher than my simpler holly designs because those tightly packed berry circles need firm satin coverage to stay round and not flatten under pressure. Run the berries colour first before the leaf fill so the overlapping areas stay clean and dont get a double-thread lump at the edges. And dont skip that sequence or youll see bleed at the berry-to-leaf boundaries. Use a good cutaway stabiliser on any jersey or fleece item, tearaway works fine on stable wovens like cotton canvas or linen.

Four sizes: 1.51 x 1.68 inches at 5,028 stitches up to 4.04 x 4.5 inches at 15,559 stitches. The 3 to 4 inch range is where this design really sings, centre it on a pillow front or a bag panel and the berry mound reads clearly from a metre away. Three colour stops: red berries first, deep green leaves second, black outline last.

One customer ordered christmas last year for a batch of 20 zippered cosmetic pouches as staff gifts. She said her colleagues thought they were shop-bought. Stitch the 4-inch version onto a natural canvas pouch front, the cream background sets off the red and green beautifully. For stocking tops or small ornament bags, grab the 2.5-inch size and centre it on the fabric face before hooping.