Love Word Art Heart Embroidery Design, Instant Download

A heart shape packed full of words. Love, adore, cherish, forever, always, yours, together and a bunch of similar love-themed words are stacked and layered in different font sizes and weights to fill the whole heart silhouette. Some words run horizontal, some at a slight angle, and thats what gives it the word-art look rather than just a grid. No single word dominates. The heart outline holds everything in and the packed lettering inside forms the body of the shape.

2 colours: red satin lettering and a white base or background tone. Density is 789 which is high, the fills pack in tight with minimal gap between adjacent letters. Stitch count starts at 17,793 on the 3.5-inch size and goes all the way to 42,168 at biggest 7.5 large. This is a proper large stitch run. On the big version youre looking at 20-25 minutes of machine time at standard speed. The digitising uses a satin stitch approach on the lettering rather than a fill stitch, which is why the density reads firm and the word edges stay sharp even on the medium sizes.

This design gets ordered a lot for framed hoop art and cushion cover gifts. One customer last september ordered the 7-inch on a red cotton cushion front saying she'd seen similar word art pieces in home decor shops for 30 quid and wanted the embroidered version instead. She used heavy cutaway stabiliser on the cotton base and said the satin held clean after two machine washes on a cold cycle. That checks out because at density 789 you need the cutaway backing to stop the dense fill from tunnelling through on washing.

Use heavy cutaway on everything with this one. Tearaway wont hold a 42,000-stitch run on cotton and youll get puckering at the edges if you try. Hoop tight. The lettering runs right to the heart border and any fabric shift shows up as an uneven outer edge. Add a base underlay across the full heart area before the lettering satin runs.

Stitch it on cream linen, white canvas, pale grey cotton or ivory fleece for framed display, or on cotton totes and cushion covers where the high stitch count wont budge through regular washing cycles.