Melting Skull Pumpkin Halloween Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

The pumpkin on this one is kinda melting, like someone left it in the heat too long, drips running from the bottom of the body and pooling underneath. The face cut into it is skull-adjacent, hollow eye sockets, a triangle nose, and a jagged low mouth. The stem and leaf at the top stay crisp while the rest dissolves downward. Its all in 1 colour, black, with the white of whatever fabric youre stitching on doing the job of showing the detail inside the hollow areas.

Wilcom drove the underlay on this one and the density sits at 441, solid enough that the drip sections hold their shape on medium-weight cotton. Six sizes, starts at 2.51 inches wide and reaches 7.51 inches. Stitch count is 6,424 on the smallest and 21,056 on the biggest. Back it with lightweight cutaway on jersey or knit, tearaway is fine on a stiff canvas or denim. Dont skip the underlay pass on the satin sections or the black fill will look uneven where the drip shapes narrow out.

Email me if the file has issues and Ill rebuild it, no fuss. I had a customer last fall who grabbed the 5-inch run for a batch of bleached black tee shirts and she said the drip detail came out really sharply, which honestly made my week. The tatami fill inside the pumpkin body keeps the large satin sections from flagging, so even the big 7.5-inch version doesnt need special handling beyond a firm stabiliser.

Best results on white, cream, or grey fabric where those hollow skull cutouts really read. Use a good cutaway on stretchy fleece, tearaway on canvas twill. Pick up a bobbin in a matching colour to avoid any bleed-through at the base. Back it with a fusible interfacing if youre doing a patch rather than direct garment work.