Love Cows with Hearts Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Four cows lined up in a row like they organised a valentines day photoshoot. Left is a classic black-and-white Holstein with a little red scarf round its neck. Next to it is a smaller tan-coloured calf wearing a bubblegum pink bow on its head. Third is a brown cow absolutely rocking a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses, which is the detail that gets people every time. Far right is a golden-brown cow with a closed-eye smile like its soaking it all in. Above em all, thin strings go up from each cow holding individual pink heart balloons, and crowning the whole design is a chunky puffy script that reads love in hot pink with a bold black outline.

Thirteen colours, thirteen changes. The script alone uses the most thread because its satin-filled and outlined, but the Wilcom digitising kept the overall density at 1,063 which runs smooth on most machines. Nine sizes from 3.5 inches wide up to 7.5 wide, occured to me after I finished this that the 3.5-inch reads almost better than the big one because all four cows still show but the whole thing fits on a pocket or sleeve.

Every February I get a wave of orders from people doing cow-print valentine stuff, farm wives, ranchers, teachers who have a cow theme going in their classroom. One customer ordered the 5-inch version last valentines for a whole set of matching tote bags for her book club, all white canvas, they looked brilliant. Ive also had people use it on pink fleece for kids valentines pillows.

Stitch on white or cream cotton for the cleanest read. The hot pink love script and heart balloons pop off pale fabric without any extra work. Skip anything darker than light grey for the background or you lose the tan and cream cow tones. Use a cutaway stabiliser, 55k stitches on the big size needs support. Avoid jersey on anything above 5 inches, the stitch density on the satin lettering will pull stretch fabric sideways.