Sew Word with Scissors and Thread Embroidery Design, Instant Download

SEW fills the middle in big blocky red capitals, the letters thick and solid, the kind of word that needs no decoration around it. A pair of steel-blue sewing scissors sits diagonally across the top right of the composition, handles to the upper left, blades pointing toward the S. The scissors have that recognisable dressmaker shape: round handle loops, long narrow blades, a faint silver-grey shading on the blade faces. Below the word, two thread spools flank a slim sewing needle, each spool wound with bright multicolour thread, green on one and magenta and amber on the other.

10 colours in total, which is alot for a design this size, but professional digitising software handled the colour changes efficiently, 10 stops across the 9 sizes. The red letter fill is the biggest single section, about 3,680 stitches on the smallest size. The spools have the most colour density per area because they carry 3 to 4 thread wraps each in different colours, but the satin column wrapping keeps each band distinct without any bleed. Im genuinely pleased with how the needle reads at the smaller sizes, thin as it is it doesnt drop below visible.

This one gets ordered by sewing teachers, craft room builders, and small alteration shops who want something for their aprons or tote bags. A customer wrote me back in march after running the medium size on a set of canvas project bags for her sewing class, she said her students kept asking where to buy the bags and she had to explain she made them. That reaction is kinda the goal with this design.

Use medium cutaway stabiliser on canvas and woven cotton, the dense red letter section needs a stable base or the outer edges will lift slightly on larger sizes. Best on stone canvas, oat poplin or natural linen where the red pops hard. Add a topping layer on terry towelling if you plan to run it on a craft room hand towel. Dont rush the bobbin on the spool sections, the colour banding is narrow and a bobbin change mid-section will leave a visible line.