Simple Pumpkin Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Tiny minimal pumpkin done in sketch-fill orange with just a curly black stem on top. The rib lines run vertical across the gourd, but the panels stay open instead of getting solid fill, gives the whole thing a hand-drawn feel like someone sketched a pumpkin in pen. The black stem twists into one curl at the very tip which is the only flourish.

Two colours, one colour change. Stitch range goes super wide here, from 1,973 at the tiny 1.51-inch size up to 27,268 at the largest 7.84-inch, thats why this one shows up in 7 sizes. Density holds at 463 so even the smallest size doesnt collapse into a thread blob. Ive digitised it in embroidery software with directional sketch fill running across the body so the orange reads as multiple stroke passes rather than one solid panel.

My niece wanted the smallest 1.51-inch version stitched on the cuff of her favourite mustard cardigan last halloween, it took maybe four minutes on my machine and looked like a hand-stitched detail rather than a digital file. The tiny size hoops in a 4x4 frame with room to spare and you can fit four pumpkins on one tee at chest level easy.

Stitch on cream, ivory, sage, denim or mustard fabric where the orange sketch fill reads natural. Avoid orange shirts where the design just disappears into the ground. Hoop with light cutaway behind anything stretchy, the small sizes need almost no support because the stitch count is so low. Pop a layer of tearaway under cotton flannel because the directional fill can drag on flannel weave. Skip dark navy and black grounds because the pumpkin orange goes muddy against deep cool tones, swap thread to cream or peach instead if youre stitching on dark.