Ice Cream Cone Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Single scoop, proper waffle cone underneath. The scoop itself is a rounded dome with subtle colour shading on one side to give it that lil bit of dimension. The cone's the classic criss-cross waffle pattern in satin stitching so the grid lines look genuinely textured when its done. Seven colours total, which sounds like alot for a simple subject but most of them are the shading passes on the scoop and the warm golden-tan tones in the waffle grid.

Nine sizes from a tiny 1.67-inch height at the smallest all the way to 3.58 inches at the top. Really quite compact in the wider dimension, 3.5 to 7.5 inches, so its more of a tall narrow design. Stitch count is 8k to 21k across the range. The smallest sizes are genuinely tiny and they're well suited to hat embroidery, pocket accents on kids shirts, and cup sleeves. I get orders for the small version from people doing ice cream shop branded merchandise and staff hats. A frozen yoghurt shop owner contacted me last summer and said she did a batch of 40 hats for her staff in the 2-inch size on white caps and they looked exactly right.

Use tear-away stabiliser on woven cotton and canvas for any size. The satin waffle grid needs firm hooping so the crosshatch lines register cleanly. Hoop the fabric a bit firmer than you'd normally go for on this one. Cutaway on knit fabric like a jersey tee or a polo so the cone structure doesnt distort on stretch. Pick a medium topping on terry cloth if you're doing kitchen towels because the waffle cone texture disappears into loopy terry without it.

Stitch on white, cream, pastel pink or pale yellow fabric and those 7 ice cream tones land with maximum sweetness. Pop it on a light blue chambray shirt or a pale yellow onesie for a summery kids piece. Skip dark or saturated backgrounds where the lighter scoop shading wont read without some contrast compensation.