Floral Cat Portrait Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Spent a good while on the wreath framing for this one before settling on the final layout. Its a cat portrait right in the centre, tabby striping drawn in with directional line stitches on the forehead and cheeks, wide alert eyes with detailed iris lines, small nose and whisker dots. The face tilts up and forward just a little, theres a calm curious expression to it. Around the portrait and curving into a wreath shape, big open daisy flowers with long petals, smaller buds, curved leaf stems, and scattered dots and small 4-point sparkle shapes fill the background.

Just 1 colour so no thread swaps at all, but stitch counts run from 25k at the 4.5 inch size up to 40.5k at the 7.5 inch version. Density sits around 746 for this one. Thats high for a single-colour design, so the coverage is really solid and the detail in the fur and flower petals comes out very defined. 4 sizes in total, square-ish format at every size.

My nephew bought this for his partner last spring, she stitched it on a cream linen tote and it looked genuinely good, very botanical print shop energy. Run a layer of medium cutaway stabiliser under on any bag or jacket application because the density warrants it. On denim or thick cotton canvas the same applies. Use tearaway on light cotton shirts but go a medium weight, not light, and float your fabric if its delicate rather than hooping directly.

Best thread colours are black on white or cream, white on black or navy, and dark green on natural linen. The design has enough fine line detail that a mid-tone thread on a mid-tone fabric wont give you the contrast you need. Skip busy patterned fabrics entirely. Both the portrait detail and flower outlines need a clean background to read properly.