Hot Rod Monster Car Embroidery Design, Cartoon Car Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

The car body is shaped like those old 1930s coupe hot rods, rounded at the top and boxy at the sides, but the whole thing has been blown up to cartoon proportions. The amber-orange panels take up the middle, dark brown stripes cutting horizontally across the body. Four massive tires, the kind that are wider than the body itself on a monster truck, sit at each corner in blue-grey with that tread-circle detail stitched into the rubber.

The engine sits exposed on the hood, supercharger block in silver-grey with the spring coil in orange and the exhaust pipes sticking up like a row of fingers. On the front face the headlights are big round bug-eyes and below them is the grille, done as a wide open mouth. White teeth stitched in a row, red gum line, the whole face of this car is basically screaming at you which is exactly the right energy for this kind of design. Speed lines rake back from the tires and puff clouds kick up underneath like its mid-burnout.

Nine colours, twelve changes, and the level of detail on even the 4-inch size is actually impressive. Kids absolutely lose it over this one. But also grown men who collect die-cast cars and go to drag strip events, somehow its the same design for both crowds. A customer who makes custom kids birthday gear put it on four dozen backing fabrics last month and sold the lot at a primary school fete.

Stitch it on black, charcoal or navy for the best result, the orange body panels and white teeth need a dark base to really land. Skip light or pastel fabric, the amber tones wash out. Use a sew-in stabiliser on fleece or a light cutaway on denim, dont try tear-away here or the underlay will pull on the tighter fill sections. Top up your bobbin before you start, twelve colour changes and it stops more than you expect.