Melting Eye Embroidery Design, Surreal Art Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

I made this one last february after alot of customers asked me for something weirder, more art-gallery-on-a-jacket kind of thing. Its a design where the concept is simple but the digitising took way longer than expected, because getting the melt drips to look fluid in thread, not stiff and plastic, is genuinely hard. The satin columns had to be laid in at different angles to sell the gravity effect, and the density sits at 97 so its dense enough to hold shape on stretch fabrics aswell.

Nine from a 3.5 hoop to 7.5 inches wide, 1,220 stitches at the smallest up to 35,189 at the largest. Seven colours total. Run a 40-weight rayon for the drip sections if you want the sheen to catch light properly. Back with heavyweight cutaway on anything that moves, knits, hoodies, bags, the underlay structure needs that support or the melt edges lift over time. Skip water-soluble topping on the satin areas; it tends to crush the directional lay before the needle's even done.

And honestly the colour sequence on this one matters alot. Start with the flesh-tone base layer, build up through the teal iris, then finish with the drip darks last. Stitch the catchlight white dead last, tiny bobbin-side tension tweak to keep it from puckering. Heres the thing though, if you hoop your stabiliser too tight, you get that slight star-warp around the eyeball and it ruins the graphic look entirely. So be careful there.

I get messages fairly often asking if this works on hats. It does, but only the 3.5-to-4.5 inch sizes on a structured cap with a proper 3D puff stabiliser, the drip shape doesnt survive a low-profile soft cap at small sizes. For jackets and tote bags youre in great shape across all nine sizes. Holler if theres a colour swap you want sorted before you stitch.