Adorable Ghost Embroidery Design, Halloween Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Seven colours, 39,086 stitches at the largest size, and a ghost character that looks genuinely cute rather than scary. The body is white with a light grey shadow fill to give it that hovering rounded shape, and then theres a bunch of accent detail: rosy peach cheeks, a small lavender bow or accessory element, black expressive eyes, and the whole thing has enough dimensional stitching that it looks like a proper illustrated character rather than a flat shape. Built in Wilcom with a density of 785 on the full size, so this is a heavier stitch file.

With 7 colour changes and that density level, you want a firm cutaway stabiliser. Dont skimp on the backing, this file pulls hard on the fabric especially at the centre of the ghost body where the layered fill builds up. Hoop stable woven fabrics, denim, canvas, cotton twill. I Dm-ed back and forth with a customer last autumn who was trying to run this on a lightweight jersey and she kept getting puckering, we sorted it by adding a second layer of tearaway under the cutaway. The design wont fail on jersey but it needs more support than it looks like it should.

At 3.1 inches the smallest size still has all 7 colours intact and the stitching holds, just watch your tension on the black outline stitches because those are satin column work and at small sizes satin likes to migrate if the bobbin tension is off. Stitch it on a kids white cotton tee at 4 to 5 inches for the best result. The lavender and peach tones read especially well against white fabric, the colours have actual contrast against each other.

Pop it on a trick-or-treat bag at 6.5 inches and customers are going to love it for kids. Avoid placing on dark fabric unless you want the ghost to read as a solid white shape, the colour detail disappears against anything darker than a mid navy or sage. Skip heavy pile fabrics like fleece without a water-soluble topping layer, the lighter fill areas sink into the pile.