Strawberry Festival Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This one is a full retro festival badge and its got alot going on in a satisfying way. The word Strawberry arches over the top in chunky puffy letters, dark red with a lighter coral highlight that gives em that inflated balloon look. Below sits Festival in bold block capitals with the same two-tone red treatment. Then theres the script line at the bottom, 'A berry good time', done in a flowing hand-lettered style that leans slightly italic. EST. 1968 sits between the fruit and the lettering, kinda like a proper vintage brand stamp.

The strawberries themselves are the centrepiece. Two of em, big and overlapping, one showing the whole fruit and one cut open so ya see the cross-section with white seed rows radiating out from the core. The leaves on top are dark green satin fills, the red bodies use dense directional stitching so the texture reads as actual fruit skin. Seven colour changes total, 7 stops in the sequence, and at the 7.5 cap width the machine clocks about 49k stitches.

Drop this on a white cotton tee and its a summer shirt, full stop. A customer wrote me last june saying she used it for a neighbourhood strawberry picking event and printed the date underneath in vinyl, ya could buy that shirt in a boutique honestly. Ive also had people use it for jam jar labels on linen pouches which I never would have thought of but it works.

Back with cutaway anything stretchy, tearaway on stable cotton twill or canvas. The puffy letter fills are the densest sections so hoop tight and let the machine run at a medium speed for the best bobbin tension. Avoid dark coloured fabrics here, the cream and white thread sections need a pale ground. Pick white, cream, oatmeal or light grey for max contrast.