Funny Christmas Chicken Wrapped in Lights Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres a brown farmyard hen wearin a tiny red santa hat, completely tangled up in a string of christmas lights. Red green orange and magenta bulbs wrap across her body like she walked through the holiday decor box and just kept walkin. The hens kinda looking off to the side, real awkward, real funny. Theres a heavy black outline on the feathers and legs which gives it that country farmhouse cartoon vibe.

10 colours, 9 colour changes, 49 trims, this is abit of a setup job, plan ya thread swaps before loading the file. Stitch count goes from 8,545 on the smallest 2.5-inch width up to 29,997 stitches at the largest 7.5-inch. Density runs 657 which keeps the brown body fill solid without the outline crushing the underlying satin. I digitised it in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with directional fill on the body and a fine running stitch on the light string so the bulbs read as individual colour pops rather than blurry blobs.

I get messages every november and early december from chicken keepers wanting christmas merch for their backyard flock kinda hobby crowd, alot of folks running small homestead instagrams. One customer ordered the 5-inch version on a deep green sweatshirt for her mum who runs a small farm in kentucky, told me it became the running joke of the family christmas card photo last year. Pop a firm cutaway behind the knit, the dense brown body and black outline will tunnel without it and you dont want a chicken with squished feathers.

Stitch on cream, oatmeal, deep green or dusty red ground fabrics so the brown hen and the holiday lights read clean. Skip dark brown fabric, you lose the body shape. Stick a medium stabiliser layer under any knit shirt fabric. Run mesh wash-away topping over any waffle or terry weave. Hoop tight, the long light string needs the design to register cleanly. Pop the smaller 3-inch version on a kids christmas pyjama chest pocket if youre customising holiday loungewear, the comedy still reads at that size.