{"product_id":"funny-spring-chicken","title":"Funny Spring Chicken Embroidery Design, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eSketched this one as a literal 'spring chicken' and Im still not sorry about it. The rooster has a full fluffy blue head with a proper crest and a proud red comb and wattles, but where the body should be theres just a big coiled spring, like someone swapped it out in a cartoon. Its rendered as a tight circular coil, each ring shaded individually so it looks cylindrical not flat. The tail fans out behind it in a sweep of darker blue feathers. Yellow feet stick out at the bottom. The whole bird has that done-with-it facial expression like it's aware of what happened to its torso and it ain't happy about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine colours, digitised in my main digitising tool: steel blue on the main body feathers and spring coils, a darker navy-blue for the tail feather shadow layers, red for the comb and wattle, yellow for the beak and feet, cream white for a few highlight fills on the eye and beak, plus a mid-brown and near-black for the outline and shadow details. The spring itself is where the digitising earns its keep. Each loop uses a satin fill with angle shifts following the curve of the coil so the shading feels round. At 565 stitches per square inch its lighter density than youd expect for a 9-colour piece, which means the run time isnt brutal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight sizes, 4.51 by 3.75 inches at the small end up to 8.51 by 7.07 inches at the largest. That big size is a statement piece on a tee or hoodie chest. A customer ran the 6-inch on a linen apron last Easter and said it got more comments than the food at the party. Genuinely. Spring chicken humour hits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest on medium-weight cotton or cotton-poly blend. Use cutaway stabiliser, the spring coil detail needs a firm base or the loops distort on stretch fabric. Avoid dark teal or mid-blue backgrounds, the design is mostly blue and it'll disappear. Stick with white, cream, grey, or a warm tan base cloth. Run the outline colour last as your machine does and dont trim threads between the coil loops or youll end up with jump thread shadows showing through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45827240886422,"sku":null,"price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/FunnySpringChickenMachineEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1762668670","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/funny-spring-chicken","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}