Love Brush Stroke Heart Embroidery Design, Bold Painted Heart Pattern

The heart here looks like someone painted it with a wide flat brush in one confident stroke. The fill graduates from bright red at the top down through a deep maroon at the bottom, which gives it that 3D depth almost like a watercoloured painting done in thread. Diagonal white highlight stripes cut across the face at a slight angle, mimicking where light would catch a painted surface. Then 'love' in flowing script sits right in the centre, quite dominant, done in black satin column.

5 colours, 4 changes, going from the lightest red down through 3 deeper reds to the maroon base, then the script layer last. Its a high density design at 757, so stitch times are on the longer side. Smallest runs 13,885 stitches at 3.5 inches wide, largest is 37,710 stitches at 7.5 inches wide. Slow your machine down slightly on the dense fill sections. Use a cutaway stabiliser, not tearaway, the density is too high for tearaway to hold properly.

Dm me if you want to swap the lettering colour for red instead of black, I made that variation for one customer last Christmas and it looked really nice on a white shirt. Heres the thing though, the dark script on the red fill creates a really nice shadow contrast that I personally prefer.

Best results on plain white, cream, or charcoal fabrics where the graduated reds can actually show. The 5 colours dont show well on busy patterns or mid-tone fabrics. Stitch it centred on a shirt or on a cushion front. Framing in a 7 inch hoop makes excellent wall art too. Youll notice the graduated fill catches light differently depending on the hoop angle which looks realy nice in person.

Comes in 5 sizes from 3.5 to 7.5 inches wide. The detail at the small sizes is suprisingly good because the satin fills stay clean all the way down.