The Lord Is My Shepherd Sheep Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Four lil sheep lined up shoulder to shoulder, slate-blue faces, fluffy white wool bodies, tiny black hooves. Underneath them sits the verse The Lord is my Shepherd written out in a flowing cursive script. The whole thing reads like a hand-lettered card you would hang in a kids room.

The fluffy bodies get that bumpy cloud texture from short tatami fills layered tight, while the faces use a flat satin in the slate-blue colour. Three sheep face forward and one (the cheeky one on the right) looks back over its shoulder. The script underneath uses a single satin column outline so the cursive stays crisp at smaller sizes.

The lowest stitch count is 14,083 on the smallest 3.51 inch tall hoop and the largest 7.51 inch version goes 31,877. 4 colours total. Slate-blue R50 G71 B107 for the faces, mid grey for shadow areas, white for wool fill, and black for the script and outlines. I digitised it in Wilcom so the lettering keeps its weight even on smaller hoops.

Pop it on cotton or canvas, kona cotton works lovely for nursery quilts. Skip dark fabric, the whites and pale greys need a light background to read properly. Hoop with a medium-weight cutaway and load a 75/11 needle so the script outline stays sharp.

My mum runs a sunday school class and she orders a bunch of these every easter for her baby quilt giveaways. Ping me anytime your machine spits out an error mid-stitch on the cursive bit, ill resend whatever format you need.