King of the Kitchen Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Stacked kitchen scene with King in tall chunky uppercase black blocks at the top, a tall orange outline chef hat floating right above the K, then a tiny orange of in cursive, a pair of crossed kitchen tools (spatula on the left, whisk on the right) in matching orange, with a wee the cursive tucked in the upper right corner, and Kitchen anchoring the whole thing at the bottom in matching black uppercase blocks. Hand-drawn feel throughout, the chef hat is just a clean outline rather than a filled shape, which keeps the design from feeling cluttered.

Just 2 colours, black and orange, which is what keeps this one quick to stitch. 5 sizes ship in the bundle. The smallest 3.01-inch tall comes in at 5,974 stitches and the largest 7.01-inch hits 15,047. Density runs at 435 stitches per square inch which gives the block letters proper weight without being so dense they pucker thinner aprons. I digitised this in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with horizontal directional satin on the King and Kitchen block letters and a flowing satin column on the small orange cursive connectors. The crossed utensils use a thin running fill which lets the spatula and whisk read as separate tools rather than a solid orange smudge.

I get messages about this one alot, mostly from people making father's day gifts. One customer wrote me a few sundays back and said she was making matching aprons for her husband and her dad, gonna do the husband's in the standard colourway but swap the orange to a deep burgundy for her dad cause hes more of a moody-kitchen guy. Both came out clean, the design pulls off a colour swap easy cause its only 2 stops.

Best on canvas chef aprons, linen tea towels, cotton oven mitts, kitchen towels, or heavyweight cotton tees. Add medium tearaway stabiliser for the apron canvas. If youre stitching on a finished apron with pockets, make sure you hoop only the front panel away from any seam allowance. Hoop with topping for terry-cloth or pile fabrics. Skip super stretchy jersey, the typography needs a firm surface for the satin to sit flat. Pick the 4-inch for an oven mitt or hand towel, the 6-inch for the chest panel of an apron, the 7-inch for a full apron front. Stitch order runs black blocks first, then orange details last so the orange overlays sit on top cleanly.