Gothic Skull Butterfly Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Reach out to your halloween-loving crowd with this design because its exactly the right flavour of dark without going full horror. The butterfly sits face-on, wings spread, and the upper wing panels each carry a skull face worked right into the wing shape itself. Youll see the eye socket voids and the jaw outline where the veining would normally run. Thats what makes it read as gothic art rather than a cheap gimmick, the skull is part of the wing anatomy not just slapped on top.

Five sizes from 0.98 inches wide up to 2.91 inches, so its genuinly sized for detail work, jacket lapels, hat brims, collar edges, bag straps. Stitch counts run from 2,808 to 10,408 in a single black thread with 16 trims handling the wing voids and eye socket gaps. I stitched the tiny 1-inch size on black felt last october for a batch of halloween market patches and the skull detail held up sharp enough that people kept asking if Id cut the voids by hand. One customer ordered forty of them for a costume workshop and said they sold out before she even finished setting up her table.

Pop tearaway behind woven cotton or canvas. On jacket collars or hat brims, stick self-adhesive cutaway to the item back and float it under the needle rather than hooping through layers. Grab a 65/9 needle for the tight stitch turns inside the skull cutouts and youll avoid thread breaks on those short runs. Reach out through the shop if any of those skull void cutouts fill in unexpectedly and Ill check your machine settings with you.

Where buyers actually put this design:

• Halloween costume jackets and capes with skull butterfly rows along the hem
• Gothic wedding accessories, garter belts, bridal sashes, bouquet wraps
• Hat brims and beanies for a subtle dark accent in everyday wear
• Collar and lapel patches that can be removed and reused
• Tote bags for gothic markets and craft fairs as a signature motif
• Phone case fabric covers and zip pouch accents