Love Feather Skull Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This one is alot more layered than it looks in the thumbnail. The feather is the frame and everything else is living inside it. The love script runs up the quill shaft in the middle section, the top half fans out into open airy barbs, and then the lower half just becomes this dense botanical tangle with a skull sitting in the floral mass at the base looking out. Three lil birds perch at the very tip. Its the kind of design where you keep noticing new details after its been stitched for a week.

Single black thread, one colour, one stop. Run it at density 320, which is on the lighter end for a piece this detailed, but it was intentional in the digitising, Wilcom EmbroideryStudio balanced the thread weight to keep those open barb lines in the upper feather from looking chunky next to the dense floral mass below. Two sizes only: 7.51 inches wide by 4.77 tall (13,435 stitches) and 8.51 wide by 5.41 tall (14,717 stitches). Both are wide-format hoops, so youll need at least a 5x7 hoop frame or larger. Cutaway stabiliser is non-negotiable here, the floral zentangle area has 60 trims and dense satin fill patches that need backing to hold flat.

Had a customer send me a message last winter saying she stitched the 8.51-inch version onto the back of a denim jacket and suprised herself with how good the skull reads at that scale. Said the birds at the tip were her favourite part. Thats exactly why I kept them, I almost removed them during digitising but I'm glad I didnt. Best placement for both sizes is wide-format items: jacket backs, tote fronts, large pillow panels. Dont try to cram this into a small pocket or pouch, it wont render cleanly below 6 inches across.

Use a 40-weight black for the floral sections, switch to 60-weight for the open barb area at the top if you want those fine diagonal lines to stay separated. Hoop tight on a stable woven cotton or denim, dont hoop anything stretchy. Medium-weight cutaway backing, trim after removing from hoop. Best colour fabric: white, cream, natural, or light grey so the line detail reads. Dark fabric works but the internal texture wont show the same way.