If Dad Can't Fix It We're All Screwed Embroidery Design, Funny Dad Gift

Big black power drill sitting dead centre and all around it the text does the talking. 'If Dad' comes in at the top in this loose red cursive, then below it the punchline hits in proper bold block letters: 'Can't Fix It, We're -All- Screwed'. The hyphens around 'All' are in there, they're kind of part of the joke. Loud, confident and doesnt take itself seriously for even a second.

The drill itself is fully filled black with those ribbed grip details on the handle and the ventilation slots on the body. It fills in and stitches solid, and that dark mass behind all that red text is what gives the design its weight. Without it the words would just float, with it the piece has this proper printed-merch feel thats hard to achieve on fabric without a really dense design doing the structural work.

Stitch count runs from around 12,600 on the 4-inch size up to about 28,900 at 8 inches so this is not a quick one, the filled drill body and dense red text take time. Its worth it though. A customer who does father's day market stalls told me last spring this sold faster than anything else on her table, people were grabbing them for aprons, hats, and shirts all at once. Go with black, navy, grey or dark green fabric and swap the thread colours so the drill reads as a lighter contrast, that version looks genuinely great aswell.

Back the hoop with a cutaway stabiliser thats got some body to it. There are 59 to 72 trims across the different sizes depending which you stitch, so let the machine run its sequence without interrupting. Slow down thread speed about 10 percent on the satin runs through the large bold letters, the fill density there is high and rushing it causes thread breaks on tighter letter forms.