Holly Jolly Bells with Green Leaves Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Heres a design that doesnt try to do too much. Two bells, bunch of holly leaves, one red bow. Thats it. The bells have that round cartoon shape with the little loop at the top, filled in yellow-gold satin stitch, and the holly leaves fan out behind them in dark green with black outline edges that give each leaf alot of definition. The red bow sits right at the base where everything meets, kinda like someone just tied it all together last minute.

Its one of those designs where the simplicity is the whole point. I hooped this on cream linen at 3.51 inches last december and a customer who bought it for her mum said it looked like it belonged on a shop-bought tea towel. So yeah, the digitising holds up on woven fabrics. Hoop it with a medium cutaway stabiliser if your hooping it on thicker cotton or canvas, the satin density on the leaf fill is 489 and they sit best with a firm underlay.

Wilcom EmbroideryStudio handled the directional fill on each leaf, running the stitches at alternating angles so the light catches them differently. The bells themselves use a satin fill with 5 colour changes total across 6 threads: dark green, a second deeper green, orange highlight, yellow, red, and black. Smallest size stitches out at 6,036 on a 2.44 inch hoop. And the biggest runs 20,170 stitches at 6.34 inches.

Stitch it on a cream cotton tee pocket, run it on a quilted christmas stocking, or pop it on a fleece scarf. The colour palette is so classic it works on basically any background that isnt too dark green itself. One customer last christmas hooped it on a red felt pouch and it looked brilliant.

Stitch the smallest size on a tee pocket, pop the medium on a kitchen towel, or run the big 6.34 inch version across a quilted stocking cuff. Holler if the file does anything unexpected and Ill sort it right out for you.