Floating Forest Cliff Embroidery Design, Woodland Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Back in february I was kinda going for that Japanese woodblock aesthetic with this one -- three colours, clean silhouette, the whole floating island thing. Three colours: dark green pine canopy, grey-brown rock, and black outline. Thats it. 12,055 stitches at density 172, digitised in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio. The outline work uses a satin column that varies in width to simulate the hand-drawn ink look -- narrow at the tips, wider at the cliff base where the shadow pools.

I had a customer write me a few months back who ran this on dark navy fabric and the green was reading too muted. She swapped the canopy thread to a brighter forest green and the whole thing popped. Worth thinking about when you pick your thread colours -- on dark backgrounds, go a shade brighter than you think ya need. On light fabric the standard dark green reads fine. Send me a message if youre having trouble getting the tree tops to stitch out cleanly and Ill take a look at your setup.

The design is 3.1 inches wide and 3.5 inches tall, so it fits a 4x4 hoop comfortably with room for hooping. Use a tearaway stabiliser on woven cotton or canvas. If youre stitching onto a knit like a jersey t-shirt, go with a cutaway because the density is solid enough to need the extra support underneath. Avoid cheap tearaway on knit -- Ive seen it cause puckering on the cliff outline satin columns. The underlay stitches are laid flat directional under the cliff face, so you wont get show-through even on lighter fabrics if your bobbin tension is set right.

Stitch it on a shirt pocket, a zip pouch, a canvas badge -- it works at this size wherever you want a moody nature moment. Use it on olive, charcoal, or sand fabric for the best contrast with those three thread colours. Send me message if the file doesnt open right in your software.