Cute Kitty Face Embroidery Design, Instant Download

So its face-only, chin-down, looking straight up at you. The kitty has its jaw resting on a flat surface, could be a table edge or a shelf, and its peering over with enormous round grey eyes. Low angle makes the eyes take up most of the face. You know the cat is up to something it shouldnt be. Caught mid-lurk, basically.

Style is a loose ink sketch where individual fur strokes fly off in every direction and theres no clean outline holding anything in. Tabby stripe markings run in dark charcoal across the forehead and cheeks. Fur around the muzzle and chin flares outward with thin single-stitch runs, giving it the slightly manic fluffy quality you see on longhaired tabbies. Right in the centre theres one small coral-salmon nose, the only warm colour in the whole design. Four colours: near-black, charcoal, pale grey and one coral pop.

Nine sizes, smallest is 2.01 wide by 3.5 tall, biggest 4.3 by 7.5. Portrait proportion because the face is taller than wide. Density 857, up to 27k stitches on the largest. Medium cutaway stabiliser, normal hooping. Wilcom sorted the loose flyaway strokes using single-run technique so they hold on fabric without bunching. My own test on pale cream cotton came out clean, which I didnt expect given how many loose stitch ends are in this file. One customer stitched the 3-inch version on a plain white tea towel last winter and said it became the most-commented thing in her kitchen. Add the coral nose and the composition suddenly has a centre point everything else reads off.

Use white, cream, pale grey or light blue backgrounds so the dark fur reads clearly. Also works on black, the charcoal converts to dark grey thread and you lose some contrast but gain an editorial look. Dont put it on busy prints, the sketchy fur lines need a clean ground to land on. Hoop the fabric taut and float a layer of water-soluble topping over any textured surface so the flyaway stitch ends settle flat.