Heart of Flying Bats Halloween Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Sketched this one out as a halloween take on the classic love heart, the whole shape is built up from dozens of tiny flying bats packed in tight. From a few steps back it reads as a solid heart silhouette, classic shape, pointed at the bottom, two rounded humps at the top. Get close and you can see each individual bat with wings spread and little body detail. Its a genuinely clever bit of digitising.

Single black thread, no colour changes, which makes it simple to set up on the machine and fast to stitch once its going. 3 colours and nine stops worth of complexity this is not, its the opposite of that. One spool, one stop, and the design runs on its own. Stitch count ranges from 12,631 stitches at 3 inches wide up to 35,029 at the largest 6.5 inch size so bobbin thread goes further than you'd expect.

A customer last halloween told me she stitched the medium size onto a black velvet bag as a gothic gift wrap and it looked incredible, the bat texture showed through the velvet pile in a way she hadnt expected. I thought that was brilliant honestly. Best results though come on solid cotton, jersey fleece or canvas where the black thread stands clear against a white, cream or grey background.

Five sizes from 3.04 inches up to 6.53 inches wide. Back any stretch fabric with cutaway, the density at the larger sizes is real and it will pull without proper backing. On rigid woven cotton or denim a tearaway handles fine. Avoid anything with a busy pattern underneath, the silhouette needs contrast to read properly.