Cute Sketch Girl with Heart Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Sketched this girl out as a lil line-art character and shes genuinely one of the lightest designs in the whole catalogue. Most of the figure is just fine outlines, almost no fill at all. Her hair falls in two high buns, each tied with a small pink ribbon, and the strands are individual running stitch lines fanning out from the bun centre so the hair actually looks like real hair instead of a solid lump. Face is minimal, two small dot eyes, a tiny circle nose, rosy cheek dot. Very kawaii but without being overloaded with detail.

Three colours only. Body and face in a near-white skin tone with the outline doing most of the work. Dress is a simple A-line shape in hot pink with a light satin fill and a small scallop stitch along the hem. The heart she holds out is a separate soft pink satin piece, smaller then you might expect, which is kinda the point since it reads as this lil offering. my digitising suite digitising means the line weights are consistent and the thin hair strands dont break or skip on slower machines.

Sizes go from 3 by 2.02 inches up to 7 by 4.71, with stitches ranging from 3,534 to 7,752 on the biggest size. That 7,752 number is low for a 7-inch design, which is why density sits at 235 stitches per square inch and the whole thing stitches out fast. Last month a customer embroidered the 5-inch onto a pale pink cotton cushion cover for her daughters room and said it looked like it came off a boutique store shelf. Thats exactly the vibe Im going for with this one.

Use a light tearaway stabiliser and hoop tight so the fine lines stay crisp. Go slow on the hair detail rows if your machine tends to skip on the thin running stitch sections. Pick pale pink, white, butter yellow or soft mint backgrounds so the airy line style reads clearly. Skip textured or pile fabric entirely, the fine outlines disappear into anything with surface loft. Ping me if any of the hair outline rows skip and Ill send a fixed version.