{"product_id":"funny-cartoon-fly","title":"Funny Cartoon Fly Embroidery Design, Insect Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fly looks personally offended by something and I love it. The compound eyes take up about half the face, big warm brown goggle shapes with a subtle sheen fill, and the expression underneath is this weary scowl like the poor thing has had a terrible morning. Its hunched forward, six hairy black legs splayed out underneath it, posture like someone who just sat down after a long day. The wings fold back in tan-cream with black vein lines running through them, they look delicate against all that heavy body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body itself is teal-green with darker segmented sections across the back and a strong black outline holding everything in line. Short black bristles stick out from the legs and the back edge of the body, digitising all those individual spike rows is honestly the fiddliest part of this design, each one is a tiny satin column. Around the base of the feet theres a soft grey shadow, which grounds the fly and makes it feel like its actually standing on something rather than floating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI drew this for a kids party planner who organises bug-themed birthday parties, she wanted something with personality rather than a generic beetle clipart. Since then I get orders for it from novelty tee printers and a few entomology merchandise sellers which I did not see coming. One customer told me she stitched it on a white lab coat for her biology classroom as a joke, the kids went wild for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRun this on white or pale grey cotton and the teal really comes through. Pop the 7.5-inch on a black tee for maximum drama, the colour fills and outlines sing on dark fabric too. Avoid patterned or textured cloth here because the crosshatch fill detail disappears into busy backgrounds. Use mesh cutaway stabiliser under everything, this design runs up to 68,333 stitches at the biggest size so a firm base is non-negotiable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow your machine speed down for the leg-spike rows and the wing vein columns. Directional stitching on the body segments needs a good firm hoop, any shifting and those parallel fills go wavy. Tearaway wont cut it here, go with cutaway even on woven fabric at the larger sizes. Bug me on chat if the stitch file gives trouble and I'll sort it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46379546837142,"sku":null,"price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/FunnyCartoonFlyEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1778404306","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/funny-cartoon-fly","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}