Sexy Lips Heart Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Worked up this design after a bunch of people were asking for something between a heart and a lips motif. The upper lip is actually digitised as a heart curve so the whole shape reads as both at once. Its kinda just a clever visual trick but it really works when you stitch it out. The two lil dangling hearts below the chin add that extra bit of playfulness.

6 colour stops in total: Dark Red, Red, Pink, White, a warm grey neutral, and Black. The sequencing goes base fills first, then the detail overlays, and the black outline runs last to crisp everything up. Theres 6 colour changes and 7 stops, so load your bobbins in advance and youre not stopping mid-hoop. Density is 715 which kinda just gives it that slightly glossy satin look without being over-stuffed. The eyelash marks at the lip corners are satin columns, around 1.5mm wide, so dont go below 3.5 inches or theyll merge together.

I digitised this through industry-grade software, and I sequenced the pink fill layers to minimise bobbin bleed through the lighter top thread. On the full 7.5 by 6.88 inch size you're gonna be running 36887 stitches, so use cutaway stabiliser and a lightweight topping on any textured fabric. Around valentines last year a customer ran the 4.5-inch on a black denim jacket and it looked really sharp against the dark ground.

Use a mid-weight cutaway for best results. Skip tearaway on this one, the density needs something that wont shift. Reach out if the colour sequence doesnt load correctly in your software and Ill send you a reordered version.