Strawberry Split Applique Embroidery Design, Instant Download

An applique-format strawberry, which means this runs in a few stitching phases where you lay down your fabric panel and the machine satin-borders it in rather than filling solid colour with thread. The fruit body is a red fabric applique placement, the leaf cap is a separate green fabric piece, and then the machine lays the satin outlines and seed details over the top. Thats how you get 3,320 stitches at the smallest size rather than the 9,000 or 10,000 you'd get on a fully filled design. At the large 6 inch size it climbs to 17,122 but youre still saving a chunk of machine time versus thread-fill alternatives.

5 sizes from 2 inches up to 6.01 inches wide. Layer a cutaway stabiliser under your base fabric before hooping and keep a hooped frame large enough to let the fabric placements lay flat without folding at the edges. The applique technique on this benefits from sticky spray or a temporary adhesive to hold the fabric panels in place during placement stitches. Im always telling people dont skip that step, the satin border only looks clean if the panel underneath isnt shifting. Density 475 on the satin edges is generous enough to cover the raw fabric edge reliably.

My niece runs a small baby gift business and she uses this on onesies and burp cloths for her market stall. She does the 3 inch version mostly, says it runs in under 4 minutes on a single-head, which is the real reason she orders applique formats over fully filled designs. Quick runtime matters when youre doing a dozen items to sell at last weeks market. The red fabric she uses against white onesies looks really punchy for how simple the construction is.

Pick a bold, saturated red fabric for the berry body and a bright cotton green for the leaf, the contrast is what sells the finished piece. Run it on baby bodysuits, kids tee fronts, or canvas tote bags. Skip satin or silk fabrics for the applique panels, they shift and fray too easily.