God Bless America Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Big patriotic typography lockup. The word GOD sits up top in thick block letters with the G filled in red and white flag stripes, the centre O swapped out for a sketchy sunflower with red petals and a black centre, and the D filled with the blue star field of the American flag. Bless flows underneath in red script, then America in navy blue script with a long flourish under the a, with two lil sketchy daisies and an arrow flourish tying the bottom together.

4 colour design, red blue white and black thread. Stitch count is hefty cause of the dense flag fills, ranges from 23,165 at the 4 inch up to 46,794 at the 7 inch. Density at 1010 means this one wants a stable foundation, run a no-show mesh cutaway behind anything stretchy and ya wont get any puckering round the heavy red fills.

I digitised it in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with the flag fills layered as walking-stitch underlay first, then directional satin on the outlines so the block letters hold their shape. The sunflower petals run as separate satin columns so theyve got dimension off the background. Real human note, theres about 100 trims in the small size and up to 119 in the largest because of all the colour switching, so use a machine with auto-trim if ya can or expect to babysit it abit.

One customer ordered the 5 inch back in late june for a porch pillow and she said it took her bernina about 38 minutes to run with auto-trims on. Best result is on cream cotton canvas, natural linen, or a heavyweight 12oz duck cloth where the flag colours pop. Skip dark backgrounds, the navy and red lose contrast on charcoal or black. Use a tearaway layer if youre hooping the 4 inch on a fabric with any give. Send me a note if your machine struggles with the colour jumps and ill split em into a friendlier sequence.