Funny halloween designs are a bunch harder to digitise than they look, and this one took me a few rounds to get the text balanced with the ghost figure. The whole thing comes in at 32460 stitches across 13 colours in a 3.06 by 3.5 inch footprint, thats a density of 470, which is on the higher end, but the design earns it because theres alot of layered satin detail in that white character and the bag illustration. I had a customer last february who bought it for a craft fair run of adult halloween shirts and said the colour registration was bang on through all thirteen stops.
Use knit-friendly cutaway on this one. At 470 density the pull force is real, and on anything stretchy like a jersey or a sweatshirt, a tearaway just wont hold the underlay flat enough. Hoop it snug, run the white ghost form first, then load the bag, the Wilcom digitising sequence layers the orange bag on top of the ghost arms so you get clean overlap without a topping. And if youre doing this on black fabric, skip the ghost-white underlay step, the density is already high enough to cover without it.
Stitch it on the front of a halloween tee and you get the lettering reading properly at chest level. Pop it on a tote and its the kind of thing people stop and ask about. I get messages every october from folks doing bulk shirt runs for halloween events saying they recieved clean pulls on every single one. Run the thread sequence in order and dont try to reorder the colour stops, Ive seen that go wrong a lil when people reorder stop 7 and 8, the handle ends up under the ghost wrist instead of over it. Drop me a note if your thread order feels off mid-run and Ill walk you through the order.
Drop a message if any of the 13 colour stops look off on your machine, a bunch of machines read the TAJIMA format a lil differently on the orange tones and I can send ya the hex reference codes.
What people are using this design for
A starting point. The design works for plenty more than just this list, this is what folks have stitched it onto most.
- Adult halloween shirt front printAdult halloween shirt for a craft fair batch where someone ordered a run last february and said the colour registration was bang-on.
- Halloween tote bag panel designHalloween event tote that people will stop and read, which is kinda the whole point of a design with text in it.
- Trick-or-treat canvas bag embroideryBlack cotton tee for a group halloween outing where the joke lands better when a few people are wearing it together.
- Halloween craft fair shirt batchTrick-or-treat bag for an older kid who appreciates the lyric reference and wants something genuinely funny.
- Funny halloween apron chestDenim apron front for a halloween market vendor who wants the outfit to do part of the conversation for them.
- Halloween sweatshirt left chestCanvas market tote for an adult who wants one halloween accessory and wants it to be the best one in the room.
- Seasonal market tote embroideryCotton sweatshirt left chest for someone who finds the usual skull-and-witch lineup a bit generic.
Dimensions
9 sizes included. Stitch counts shown for the largest colorway.
| Size (in) | Stitches |
|---|---|
| 3.06 × 3.50 in | 32,460 |
| 3.50 × 4.00 in | 38,079 |
| 3.94 × 4.50 in | 43,589 |
| 4.38 × 5.00 in | 49,713 |
| 4.82 × 5.50 in | 56,531 |
| 5.25 × 6.00 in | 63,634 |
| 5.69 × 6.50 in | 71,025 |
| 6.13 × 7.00 in | 78,500 |
| 6.57 × 7.50 in | 85,923 |
Files & Formats
Eight machine formats included in one zip. Whichever your machine reads, its in the pack.








Plus a color chart for thread matching. See full format guide.
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Reyazul Masud Riham, hand-drawing every design on this site
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