Adorable Kawaii Chicken Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Seven colours, 9 sizes, round kawaii chicken, 13,013 stitches at 3.5 inches wide up to 43,807 at 7.5 inches. This lil guy gets used on alot of kids stuff and I can see why. The whole thing is basically a circle with a face on it: round fluffy body, big sleepy anime eyes, a tiny orange beak, and that red heart-shaped comb on top. The feather texture on the body is directional, radiating outward from the centre, which is what gives it that puffed-up look rather than a flat satin blob. The blush body uses two pinks layered with satin fill, then red for the comb, orange for the beak, a warm amber-brown for the wattles and feet, white for the eye shine, and black for the outlines and pupils.

Heights run 3.21 to 6.88 inches across the 9 sizes, so its slightly landscape at the smaller end and nearly square by the top size. That 43,807 stitch count at the largest size is a lot for a seven-inch piece, which is why my digitising suite was used for digitising, density 849 means the feather fill and outline layers need careful sequencing so colours dont bleed into each other at the layered edge zones. Six colour changes, 38 trims across the design.

Stick to light cutaway knit fabrics, the fluffy body has dense fill and ya dont want it pulling on stretch fabric. On woven cotton or canvas ya can get away with a firm tearaway, but honestly cutaway is the safer call here given the stitch density. Hoop snugly but dont overtighten; the round outline stitching at the perimeter of the body can pucker on thin fabrics if the tension is too high going into the hoop. Add a light water-soluble topping over the eye area, it helps the black outline stitches sit clean on the white fill without sinking into the fabric pile. Skip dark base fabrics if you want the blush pink to read true; on navy or black the pale body colour needs a good underlay pass or the coverage looks thin.

Last week a customer put the 5-inch size onto a cream cotton onesie and emailed the snap, the rosy blush patches on the cheeks read perfectly at that size. Below 4 inches the eye detail starts to compress abit, so Id keep the really small sizes for flat woven fabrics where the outlines stay crisp.