Skater Ghost with Coffee Embroidery Design, Instant Download

So this ghost has its priorities sorted. Teal beanie pulled down over where the ears would be, a to-go coffee cup clutched in one hand, and an orange skateboard tucked under the other arm. A carved jack-o-lantern sits right next to it like the ghost brought its kid along. Couple of lil bats scatter around the top of the design. Its not trying to be spooky at all, its more like a ghost that just rolled in from the skate park and stopped for a flat white on the way.

And the drawing style leans into that chill mood. Black outlines do the structural work but inside the ghost body its all open white satin with crosshatch shadow lines suggesting a draped sheet shape. The teal beanie has visible stitch rows across it, the skateboard deck is a warm pumpkin orange, the coffee cup is salmon pink with a dark lid. Six colours total, 5 colour changes, and alot of the detail comes from how the black outlines layer over the fills rather than from dense thread packing. Density sits at 680, which stitches out nice and flat on cotton without that stiff cardboard feel.

I put this one in my skate shop section last october after a customer who runs a small indie skatewear brand ordered 30 tees for a halloween pop-up. She wanted something that said halloween without screaming it. This was the one. Since then I get messages from apparel decorators doing fall merch drops asking if they can scale it up for hoodies. Yes ya can, the 7.51 by 6.13-inch size lands great on a chest or back panel.

Best fabric for this is a plain cream or oatmeal cotton tee. Stitch the mid build on a black sweatshirt if you want that white layer to disappear slightly into the background for a moody faded look. Skip busy patterned fabric, fine detail lines need a clean ground to read properly. Choose tearaway on stable wovens, cutaway if youre hooping fleece or jersey. Run the bobbin at normal tension so the white fill doesnt pucker at the edges where it meets the black satin column outlines.