Funny Chicken Reading Book Embroidery Design, Bookworm Chicken Pattern, Instant Download

A cartoon chicken sitting upright with a book open in its wings and reading glasses perched on the beak, totally absorbed in whatever its reading. The expression is concentrated, like this chicken has no time for anything else right now. Its a genuinely funny image and the design pulls it off well because the proportions are right, the round body, small wings just barely holding the book, the tiny glasses.

11 colours in this one: white body, warm yellow beak and feet, red comb and wattle, light brown wing accent feathers, black glasses frame, cream for the book pages, dusty blue book cover, warm orange detail, pink cheek blush, dark charcoal for outlines, and a small red text element on the book cover. The digitising used dense satin columns on the outlines and fill stitching with good underlay to keep the body sections crisp on cotton. Density is 954 so this is a full-featured piece.

5 sizes, 2.79 to 5.97 inches wide, 3.5 to 7.5 inches tall. The largest version is around 42,700 stitches, thats quite high for a design this wide so give the machine time. Eleven colour changes means alot of thread swaps but each section is clearly defined so you wont lose your place. Use cutaway stabiliser on all sizes.

I get a steady bunch of orders from teachers and librarians who put the 3 inch version on their tote bags. One customer told me last week she runs a book club and bought the 5 inch size for matching canvas bags for all 9 members. Works great on white, oatmeal, light grey and soft blue fabrics.

Use a cutaway stabiliser and slow the machine down for the larger sizes. Run a test swatch first on the fabric youre using since the dense fill at 954 rewards a properly tensioned setup.