{"product_id":"sweet-as-melon","title":"Sweet as a Melon Embroidery Design, Watermelon Quote Summer Machine Embroidery, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe bottom of the design is a half-slice of watermelon, that solid dark green arc of rind with a narrow white strip before the rosy interior kicks in. The red fill is dense and crosshatched-looking in the stitch direction, which gives it real texture, not just a flat blob of colour. Black teardrop seeds dot across the lower half. Then the lettering sits on top of all that, \"Sweet\" in dark green cursive at the top, \"as a\" in smaller black script in the middle, and \"melon\" swooping across the widest part in big red cursive that fills almost the whole width on the larger sizes. Its got that layered scrapbook energy but it stitches out very cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 colour changes, 2 stops, so youre swapping dark green first then going to red then finishing with the small black seed details. The biggest size is 7.09 x 7.51 inches at 26,594 stitches and the smallest is 3.32 x 3.51 inches at 9,547 stitches. Five sizes total. Density is 499 which sits well for cotton and cotton-poly blends. professional digitising tools ran the interior tatami in a diagonal pattern so it reads textured rather than flat from arm's length. The lil hearts scattered near the top are one of my favourite touches in the file, they dont read as clutter at all, they just float nicely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI get alot of orders for this in late may through to august, its a peak summer season design for sure. People stitching gifts for teachers at end of term buy it frequently, the watermelon theme is very end-of-school-year right now and has been for a couple summers running. One customer who runs a kids summer camp had it stitched on all the staff water bottles using iron-on linen patches and sent me the photos in july, they looked genuinely great.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStitch on white or cream cotton for maximum colour payoff. The 3 colours are dark green, red and black so they need a pale ground to sing. Avoid cream knit here, the density at 26k stitches on the big size is abit much for stretch fabric. Apply cutaway on lighter knit fabric and a firm tearaway on heavy woven canvas. Hoop tight and dont rush the machine speed on the crimson section pass, thats the densest part of the whole design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDm me if the colour changes confuse your machine on the first run and Ill walk you through the thread order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45915158773910,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/SweetasaMelonEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1764664239","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/sweet-as-melon","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}