Merry Christmas Script Reindeer Embroidery Design, Holiday Calligraphy Machine Embroidery, Instant Download

Its the phrase Merry Christmas written out in a flowing calligraphy script, the kind with long looping tails that sweep under and past the letters. Merry sits on top in smaller lettering and Christmas fills the bottom in big bold satin-filled strokes, the whole word angled upward to give it energy. The lettering has proper thick and thin contrast, the downstrokes are wide satin columns and the upstrokes are thinner which is what makes it read like real calligraphy rather than a thick block font. Sitting up in the top right corner is a small brown reindeer in mid-leap, legs tucked and stretched in the running position. Scattered around the text are brown snowflake outlines and tiny dot accents.

My mum stitched the biggest size onto a red and gold christmas table runner last year and honestly it looked like something from a boutique christmas shop. Just 3 colours total, red for the lettering, warm brown for the leaping reindeer and scatter marks, and white for a couple of highlight details. Four sizes from 4 inches wide by 4.5 inches tall up to 6.75 by 7.5. Stitch counts go from just over 21k to around 36k. Not a heavy piece for the visual impact it gives, the script stitches fast because theres no solid fill areas, its mostly the satin columns following the letter shapes.

Run a layer of tearaway stabiliser under your fabric, the lettering doesnt have the kind of dense fill that demands cutaway. On jersey or stretch fabrics swap to a light cutaway and add a soluble topping so the thin parts of the script dont sink into the knit texture. Check your tension before you start, loose bobbin tension on those narrow flourish tails shows up straight away. Use a 75/11 needle on lighter fabrics so the thin upstroke stitches land clean.

White, cream, ivory or gold fabric is where this one really performs. Black or navy also look great, the red pops hard against dark backgrounds. Skip dark brown fabric because the brown accent marks just merge into it. Any issues message me through the shop.