Halloween Pumpkin Witch Hat Embroidery Design V2, Instant Download

Ive made quite a few halloween pumpkin designs over the years but the witch-hat version is the one people come back to first when october starts. Theres something about the tall black hat sitting directly on the pumpkin stem that makes it look like the pumpkin is in costume, which customers find genuinely funny. Six colours, 13205 stitches, density 208, digitised in Wilcom. Portrait orientation at 2.81 by 3.51 inches, the pointed hat adds significant height so youve got a taller piece than a standard round pumpkin design.

At density 208 this one needs a firm base. Use cutaway stabiliser on anything thats not a stiff canvas or heavy denim. The black satin crown is the most demanding area, black at high density can look slightly metallic if your thread tension is off, so check your upper tension before you start. Run an underlay on the hat body before the top black layer goes down. The yellow-gold buckle band is a small satin rectangle with only a few hundred stitches, slow your machine to 600 spm for that section so the small detail comes out clean. Dont skip that step. Use a 75/11 needle across the board.

People put this one on halloween sweatshirts, treat bags, zippered pouches, and a few customers have done it on onesies for very small halloween costumes. Stitch on black fabric for maximum drama, orange satin against black is the classic halloween read. I had one customer email me a photo of it stitched onto a set of matching pillowcases and the carved face really pops with the hat perched above it. Avoid very light pastel backgrounds if you want the near-black carved features to read clearly. The portrait shape also works well as a side-seam accent on wide-leg trousers or a sleeve strip on a kids halloween sweater.