Festive Script Typography Tree with Lights Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The tree here isnt made of branches, its made of letters, and it comes in 5 sizes from 3.3 inches up to 7 inches square. Merry sits across the upper section in a flowing cursive and Bright fills the lower half in the same hand, both words curving to fill the triangle of a tree outline. A single black cord runs the perimeter of the whole shape, swooping from the base up both sides to a point at the top where a solid red five-pointed star sits as the topper. Individual light bulbs branch off the cord at intervals, round green ones and round red ones plus a few teardrop-shaped yellow-gold ones. Small black and red star shapes and circle dots scatter loosely around the outer edges like ornaments drifting off a branch.

The script lettering is a satin running stitch, not a filled block, so it has a slim hand-drawn line quality rather than chunky filled text. The cord is a matching black running line, heavier weight than the letters. Each bulb is a separate small filled satin shape, the round ones are tiny solid ovals and the teardrops have a slight elongated base. Four colours in the whole file, which keeps this one clean and fast. At only 19k stitches on the 7-inch size its one of the lighter stitch loads in this range.

Sizes run from 3.3 by 3.5 inches up to 7.07 by 7.51. The square-ish aspect ratio is unusual for a tree and actually makes it flexible for spots like cushion faces, tote front panels or square gift boxes. A customer had the 5-inch centred on a set of cream linen napkins for a December table setting and said her guests thought they were from a boutique stationery shop.

Because the lettering is a running stitch rather than a fill, any slippage in the hoop shows immediately as a wavy letter stroke. Hoop very firmly on a medium tearaway for woven fabrics. For knits use a cutaway and go slow on the outer cord sections where the stitch path doubles back on itself. Four colours means only three colour changes in the full run, so this goes onto the machine and practically stitches itself once its set up right. Keep your presser foot speed down on the cord perimeter sections. Skip dark fabrics for this one, the black cord and the dark background will fight each other and the bulbs wont read properly. Message me with your hoop dimensions if youre working a square frame and Ill take a look at the file.