Honk Honk Goose in Car Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Its a goose. In a car. Honking. And honestly thats the whole brief and it nails it completely. The white goose sits crammed behind the steering wheel, head up above the door, beak wide open in full honk mode, eyes doing that wild unhinged stare that geese are famous for. The vehicle has a rounded simple shape, kinda like a toy, which makes the goose look even more out of scale and ridiculous. HONK sits bold above the scene in chunky slab text. Eight colours: white for the goose body, orange-yellow for the beak and feet, black for the eyes and outlines, red for the body of the car, grey for the wheels, plus a few accent tones for depth.

Punch happened in Wilcom with satin column outlines on the vehicle edges to keep things crisp. The bird itself gets a tatami fill with directional stitching so you can actually see the feather texture rather than just a flat white blob. Stitch count sits between 14k and 35k across the 9 sizes from 3.43 inches up to 7.33 inches wide. Thats a reasonable density across the board and a tearaway stabiliser works fine on most woven fabrics for this one.

This design went out to somebody's internet-famous goose fan group last spring and I recieved a whole bunch of messages from people wanting to customise it with different text. One customer asked me to swap HONK for her dogs name and that turned out realy well. I can organise a text swap if ya need it, just message me.

Try it on a cotton tote, a canvas pouch, a crew neck sweatshirt. Works really well on white or light cream fabrics where the red and orange get their full punch. Skip anything with a busy pattern, the goose silhouette needs room to read. Its also the kind of design that doesnt take itself seriously, so the fabric choice can be fun too.

Pop it on a kids backpack patch or a zip pouch for a funny gift. Centre the design and use a stabiliser appropriate for the base fabric, tearaway for woven, cutaway for knit.