Musical Symbols Heart Line Art Embroidery Design, Music Lover Pattern, Instant Download

The outer shape is a heart but every bit of space inside it is musical notation. Treble clefs are the big anchors, there are 3 or 4 of them sitting at different angles through the composition, and around them you get eighth notes, quarter notes, beamed sixteenths, flat signs, sharp signs, whole notes, half rests, bar lines, bass clefs tucked in at the sides. At the 4-inch size the whole thing reads as a musical texture from across the room. At 8 inches you can identify actual individual symbols which is a genuinely different experience.

Unlike a pure outline version the symbols here have real body to them. The treble clef stems are satin stitched and the note heads sit as solid rounded shapes. Thats what the stitch count reflects, 10,486 stitches at the 4-inch rising to 20,582 on the 8-inch. Plenty of density to give it visual weight on a cream or white cotton ground without the fabric going stiff.

Last autumn a customer who plays cello in a regional orchestra ordered the 6-inch size on a linen tote bag before a tour. She said it was immediately recognisable to every musician in the ensemble and nobody outside the group gave it a second glance, which was exactly what she wanted. Thats the thing about this design, it reads differently depending on who is looking.

Hoop woven cotton or linen with a standard tearaway stabiliser and stitch at normal speed. Use a cutaway backing if you are stitching on jersey or any knit so the heart outline stays round and doesnt stretch out of shape. The symbols are individually stitched objects with jump trims between them, around 91 to 96 per size, so check your bobbin before starting the bigger versions. Pop a note at checkout or text me if you need a different format and ill add it to your download.