Sophisticated Woman Face Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The woman is looking down and to the side, head tipped like shes lost in a thought. Her hair does most of the talking. Its massive and wavy, flowing in three or four overlapping layers of grey fill with brown highlights threaded through from root to tip. my main digitising tool digitised the hair in long directional satin columns that follow the wave of each strand, which is why it looks like actual hair rather than a flat grey patch.

The red poppy sits tucked above her left ear, full bloom with black satin detail in the centre and 3 petals fanning out. Her lips are the only other crimson hit. Red nails curl at the base where her fingers rest near her collarbone. So youve got 4 colours total, black linework holding everything together, grey for the hair body, brown for the highlights and red for the 2 accent points. Nine sizes I mean 5 sizes, 17k stitches at the small end up to 46k at 7.5 inches.

A customer who runs a fashion boutique in the city ordered a batch of these last spring for their staff carrier bags and branded packaging. She told me the design photographs beautifully under overhead shop lighting and the hair detail reads even on photos taken on a phone. Since then I get orders from tailors, beauty salon owners and womens clothing brands. They put it on linen pouches, canvas bags, the lot.

Pair it with natural fabrics. Cream linen, ivory cotton, oatmeal canvas, white silk-look polyester. The grey hair and red poppy need a pale backdrop to show the tonal range. Skip dark fabrics unless youre doing a reverse colourway on navy, which works kinda well if you swap the grey fill to white thread. Stick to medium cutaway on woven cloth, tearaway on stiff canvas.

Hoop it centred on the bag face or offset left for a fashion-editorial look. The 6.5-inch size fills a standard carry bag nicely and the 3.5 baseline is gorgeous on a card-holder pocket or small clutch flap.