Patriotic 4th of July Elements Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres the patriotic 4th of july elements strip and its built like a row of four lil cookout icons in a line. From left to right ya get a hot dog with bright mustard squiggle on top sitting in a tan bun, then a tall striped Uncle Sam tophat with a navy blue band and a row of white stars across the front. Beside that a red rocket firework angled up with little blue and yellow burst clouds popping out behind it. And the last spot holds a waving American flag on a tan stick. Each icon stands alone with chunky black outlines holding it together.

The hot dog uses a tan bun with a deep brown sausage and that mustard yellow line snaking across the top, with a few rust dots underneath like spilled bbq drippings. The tophat stripes run red and white with the navy band sitting just above the brim. Stars fill the canton on the flag, the rest ripples in stripes down to the pole. Seven colours total, the changes flow through the four icons in a logical order.

Few weeks before the july 4 holiday a hometown bakery bought the elements for their celebratory pie aprons. She wanted them in a horizontal strip so she could stitch them across the bottom of a tea towel for memorial day kitchen gifts. So I built each one to read clean even at the smaller 3.5-inch size. Ive sold alot of these for backyard cookout merch since, theres a steady stream of repeat orders every may.

Stitch on cream or white cotton for the cleanest pop, the red and navy really sing on a pale ground. Pop the smallest size along the cuff of a kids tee sleeve for a parade outfit. But avoid super dark grounds like black, the tan bun and white stripes wash and the icons lose contrast. Pair the medium on a backyard apron chest panel. Densest sections sit at the rocket bursts and that horizontal strip of stripes on the flag. Use a tearaway stabiliser on woven cotton, switch to mesh cutaway if youre running this on lightweight tea-towel linen. Hoop firm so the long horizontal strip doesnt drift sideways. Run a small test colour on scrap before the real piece because the mustard yellow can shift tone abit between thread brands.