{"product_id":"floral-lion-head","title":"Floral Lion Head Embroidery Design, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mane on this lion isnt fur at all. Its about forty overlapping leaves in five or six shades of green, from a pale lime yellow at the outer edge right through to a deep forest green where the leaves bunch up around the jawline. The leaves are proper botanical shapes, some pointed, some rounded, a few with small white lily-type flowers tucked in at the top of the composition. At the very base of the mane, almost like a finishing detail, theres three small blooms in a dusty slate blue. That single unexpected colour against all the green is the bit that gets people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe face itself is worked in a much more realistic style than the mane. Cream and warm buff tones build the muzzle and cheeks using directional satin fills that follow the contour of the jaw. The nose is solid black satin, the eyes have proper dark-lash detail, and theres a subtle chin tuft in white. So youve got a soft-shaded realistic face surrounded by a completely abstract botanical mane, and the two styles sit together without fighting each other. Thats not easy to pull off and its why this is one of my favourites in the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStitch count tops out at 47k on the largest 7.5 by 7.29 inch size, density sits at 868 per square inch, so it stitches out in a reasonable time. Five colours. Run this on cream, white, sage or charcoal and it reads well on all of them. Go charcoal if you want the greens to really sing. Light fabric lets the face detail come through clearly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine sizes gives you flexibility from 3.5 inches up to 7.5. Use a medium-weight cut-away stabiliser and hoop firmly on the larger sizes. Slow the machine down on the dense leaf sections so the satin fills dont skip at the edges. I get messages about this one from people who do wildlife-themed gifts, its a popular pick for milestone birthdays, and someone wrote to me last spring after stitching the five-inch on a sage linen cushion and said strangers at her market stall kept picking it up to look closer. That said a lot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46369544634518,"sku":null,"price":4.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/FloralLionHeadEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1777885668","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/floral-lion-head","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}