Cute Reading Duck Embroidery Design, Instant Download

A small fluffy duck standing straight up on its orange feet, holding a red book open in front of its chest like its genuinely absorbed in the story. Round pink glasses sit across the orange beak, the kind of round wire frames you'd see on a cartoon professor. The whole duck body is filled with warm butter-yellow directional satin that fans out from the centre so it looks soft and dimensional rather than flat.

On top of its head sits a flower crown: four or five yellow daisies with small pink centres, green leaves tucked in between, wrapping around the crown like a proper spring garland. The red book has a solid crimson cover and white pages fanned open at the spine, so you can read it as a book even at the small sizes. Thirteen colours running through the whole thing: the yellow body alone uses three shades from pale gold to deeper amber for the shadow areas.

Density is 850 stitches per square inch, the body needs that to build up the plush fluffy look. Biggest size is 4.92 by 7.5 inches at thirty one thousand stitches, budget some time for this one. Smallest is 2.3 by 3.5 at thirteen thousand. Use a medium to firm cutaway stabiliser and hoop tightly, theres enough density that a loose hoop will shift mid-stitch and throw off the glasses detail.

White quilting cotton and pale yellow fabric both work well. Stitch it on pale blue and the duck body still reads clearly since the orange and red carry enough contrast. Skip anything dark, the butter yellow washes out against navy or black and you lose the body shape entirely. Ive had this one go to book lovers of all ages. One customer last december bought it for a school librarian gift on a canvas tote and said it was the most on-point present they'd given in years.