Spooky Halloween Pumpkin Parade Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Its a pumpkin stack. Six carved pumpkins piled on top of each other in black thread, each with a completely different facial expression cut into it: triangles, curved gaps, jagged grins, and wide square-mouthed ones. They vary in width as they go up so the whole column leans just a degree or two, like theyre about to tip. Bats in the background. A rounded ghost peeking from behind the left edge near the top. Spider web corner. All single thread, no colour changes, which means this runs fast once its hooped.

Four sizes, but these are narrow and tall. Widths run from 1.77" up to 2.95" wide. Heights go from 4.49" to 7.50" tall. So its deliberately a vertical composition for collar placement, sleeve bands, zip edges, and bag gusset panels rather than a centre chest motif. Stitch counts are 12,879 to 21,067, all single black thread. Density 951. Thats what lets the triangular cutout faces hold definition at the 1.77-inch width. Pop a lower density in there and the carved face gaps fill in as solid blobs at small scale.

Press a heavy cutaway behind any jersey or knit, the narrow column really needs the support along both sides. Woven linen or heavy canvas drill is fine with a medium cutaway. Run at a lower machine speed on the dense pumpkin body fills. Add a light topping on any pile or fleece to keep those triangle outlines sharp.

A customer last halloween stitched the 7.50-inch tall version down the left sleeve of a black zip-up hoodie, starting from the shoulder seam all the way to the cuff, and she said it got more comments than any embroidered piece shes made. Im suprised by how often this one works on sleeves rather than front panels, but the narrow 2.9-inch width is basically made for it.