Happy Duck with Flowers Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Heres the happy duck design and the duck is straight up grinning. Hes mid-step with one webbed orange foot lifted, the other planted in green grass, one wing pulled out wide like hes about to do a little dance. Mouth wide open showing pink inside, cheeky tilt to the eye, five white daisies with sunny yellow centres floating around him.

The body is white feathers with subtle grey shading along the wing edges and under the chest, done with directional stitching so the feathers layer properly instead of reading flat. Bright orange beak and matching webbed feet really pop against the white. Tufts of leaf green grass sit at his feet, daisies have small yellow satin centres.

I drew this one last spring for farmhouse kids merch. A customer ordered 8 of them on sage green toddler aprons for a cooking-with-grandma birthday party and the images came in after gorgeous, the duck reads as country cottage without going twee. Realy works for easter baskets, nursery hoops and small farm shop branding too.

Stitch on sage green, soft yellow, sky blue, oatmeal or pale pink cotton so the white duck stays readable and the orange feet sing. Skip white or cream fabric, the body fills vanish against it and you lose the whole shape. Pop a 4 inch version on a kids apron pocket, run the 7 inch on a tea towel.

Largest size hits 55k stitches across 9 sizes with 7 colours so give yourself time on the bigger ones. Use a medium cutaway stabiliser, the dense feather fills will pucker on jersey without proper backing. Drop to tearaway only on tight-weave canvas or twill where the fabric holds its own.