Minimal Rose Hand Line Art Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Sketched out a design in the style of those tattoo flash pieces you see in a lot of womens botanical ink work right now. Tall vertical piece, hand coming up from the bottom holding a rose stem, bloom sitting at the top. One colour, no fill, all the detail is in the outline lines themselves. The hand has those light knuckle-line details, the rose has layered petal curves in the old-fashioned rose drawing style, the two leaves have vein lines running through them.

Single black thread, no colour changes, no stops except the one at the end. Im serious, thats it. Run a bobbin change at the start and let it go. Low stitch count means it runs fast too, even the biggest size at 7.5 inches only clocks around 11k stitches. Its the kind of design I can reliably tell people to run on their first session with a new machine and theres very little to go wrong.

White and light fabric colours are where it belongs. The outline-only style relies on the fabric colour doing the work that fill stitching would normally do, so pale pink, ivory, white, light grey are all great. Ive had people text to ask if it works on black and yes technically it does but youll want to swap to white or gold thread because the knuckle details are so fine they can disappear against very dark ground if youre not careful. Use tearaway underlay for woven cotton, light cutaway on any stretch. Add a topping on linen if the weave is open. Skip polyester satin, the low density and line-art style needs a bit of texture to grip properly.

Its a tall narrow design, very portrait orientation. The smallest sits at 3.5 by 1.9 inches, the largest at 7.5 by 4 inches. Earlier this year a customer needed the 5-inch file for a tote bag and said the line work was so clean she had two people stop and ask if it was screen printed. Thats what you get when the digitising keeps the density low and deliberate.