Peacock Feather Eye Embroidery Design, Fashion Machine Embroidery

Customers asked for a teal and yellow-green peacock feather design that could work as a fashion piece on clothing, not just a craft project, and this is the one I point them to now. Its cut right into the eye section of a peacock feather, none of the long quill shaft, just the iridescent eye surrounded by those splayed barb lashes, and the result is something that looks just as at home on a clutch bag as it does on a jacket lapel. The teal liner around the iris gives it this surreal, makeup-art quality that reads very editorial. A customer at a market last spring told me she got three separate compliments on her tote before she even set it down on a table.

The iris itself is yellow-green with lines radiating out from a solid black pupil, very much like the real thing but rendered in thread rather than pigment. Nineteen colours means 19 color changes, I wont sugarcoat that, tape the thread behind the hoop between changes and youll be fine. The grey-white barb lashes that fan out around the outer edge are done in a more open directional fill that contrasts with the dense satin stitching of the iris. Wilcom EmbroideryStudio is what I used for the colour sequencing, getting that graduated yellow-green iris to build cleanly took more passes than id expected.

This is wide rather than tall, the 7.5-inch version is 5.32 inches high, so suits landscape placements like a jacket front panel, bag flap, or sleeve patch. Tape a layer of tearaway behind wovens and a firm cutaway behind knit. Skip lightweight stabilisers on this one, the stitch density at 42,841 minimum needs proper support. Add a topping layer over any pile or textured fabric to stop the underlay from sinking. Message me if the file causes any problem and Ill get it sorted.