Floral Skull Embroidery Design V2, Instant Download

This floral skull design took me the longest to digitise out of all the halloween stuff I made last year, getting ten colours to layer cleanly inside a 2.78 x 3.5 inch space without colour bleed or registration drift is genuinely tricky work. Wilcom handles the underlay sequencing well but you still have to think through which floral elements stitch before others so the overlaps read right. The result is 13,441 stitches at a density of 214, which gives those rose fills a really thick, almost velvet-y quality when they stitch out on the right fabric.

Use a medium-to-firm cutaway stabiliser on this one, I wouldnt go tearaway because the skull base and the floral fills have alot of directional satin sections that need the backing to stay put through the full stitch sequence. Hoop firmly, no slack, especially on the first colour pass which lays down the initial foundation shape. If youre stitching on denim or heavy canvas, add a water-soluble topping so the finer petal details dont get swallowed by the weave texture. Avoid anything below a 5.5-ounce fabric weight or the ten-colour thread density will pull it in.

I had a customer email me last november saying shed entered a halloween costume contest wearing a jean jacket with this stitched on the back, and she came second. She was alittle disappointed about second place but honestly, competing against a full bodysuit costume with this on a jacket is pretty impressive. The skull reads as day of the dead crossed with botanical illustration, not just basic halloween, which is why it works on stuff people actually wear past october.

Stitch on black denim, a heavy cotton canvas, or a dark ponte for the most impact. Email me if you run into any colour sequencing questions and Ill walk you through the thread order.