Sleeping Kittens Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres a tiny kitten curled up asleep, body wrapped into a soft circle with its tail looping back around to meet its nose. Ears tucked low, eyes closed, paws folded under its chest. The whole pose reads like she just dropped off mid-step and decided the floor was as good a bed as any. Drawn in loose pencil-sketch line art with no fill, just outlines and shading hatching.

Two thread colours run the whole design. Warm grey at 4,781 stitches handles all the soft body shading and the light fur direction. Black at 5,397 stitches carries every line, the ear edges, the closed-eye crescents, the paw outlines, the curve of the tail and those whisker hairs. No third colour. The piece is essentially a sketch in thread, gentle and quiet on whatever fabric you put it on.

Im gonna be honest, this is one of em designs that I drew kinda just for myself, my own cat sleeps in this exact pose every afternoon on the kitchen windowsill. People kept asking for a sleeping cat that wasnt cartoon-styled and this is what came out. One customer ordered the 7.5-inch height version last christmas to gift to her mum who had just lost her elderly cat, and the soft pencil look made it feel more like a memorial drawing than a busy cartoon.

Best stitched on cream cotton, soft pink jersey, oat linen, pale lavender or any light solid fabric. The line art needs negative space to read as a drawing rather than a stitch blob. Skip dark fabric because the warm grey will lose contrast against anything below mid-tone. Skip heavy patterned cloth aswell, the gentle pencil lines get lost in print.

Density is light here at 10k stitches on the smallest size, 22k on the largest. Use a tear-away stabiliser on woven cotton, soft cutaway on jersey or fleece. Hoop firm but not tight, kinda just snug, the pencil lines need consistent tension to keep the curves smooth. Reach me at the support inbox if a stitch sequence skips ahead.