Pocket Pandas with Bamboo Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Three lil pandas tumbling out of a faux shirt pocket and theres bamboo stalks shooting up behind em. The top panda is climbing high, middle one is hugging a stalk, and the third one is just sitting in the pocket lip looking suprised. The pocket itself is sketched in loose grey lines so it reads like a real chest pocket trick on a plain tee.

The linework has alot of texture, kinda scratchy and hand-inked. Five thread colours total, white for the panda bellies and faces, black for the outlines and ears, two greys for shadowing, and a soft leaf green for the bamboo. The greens are R85 G148 B43 and they pop nicely against black panda fur without going neon.

I drew this one last spring for a customer who wanted a pocket-trick design for kids tees. Shes been ordering bunch of zoo and animal pieces from me and the pandas were the one she kept asking about. Stitch range goes 9,999 up to 26,408 across 9 sizes so you get options from 3.5 inches up to 7.49 inches wide.

Best fabric for this is a smooth cotton tee or a light canvas tote. Skip waffle textures aswell because the pocket illusion needs flat ground to read properly. And thin jersey will pucker under the dense black fur sections so go atleast a midweight jersey or pop a layer of mesh wash stabiliser underneath.

Run a heavy cutaway underneath, the panda fur sits at almost a thousand stitches per square inch in the densest spots. Hoop tight, dont skimp on stabiliser, and use a fresh 75/11 needle for the fine bamboo leaf detail. So the trims, theres 88 of em, plan a thread snip break halfway through if your machine doesnt auto-trim.