Swirly Decorative Cloud Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This is a decorative cloud, not a weather-report one. Its wide and low, filled with tight curling scrolls and spiral shapes in the traditional chinese or japanese cloud style, you'd see this kind of thing on a kimono lining or carved into a temple beam. The fill is aqua/teal, the inner swirl shapes are white or lighter teal, and theres a heavy black satin outline all the way round giving it that woodblock-print crispness. No face, no cartoonishness, just pure decorative geometry.

3 colors: white, aqua, black. But dont let that fool you, 8,063 stitches on the smallest size at 1.52 inches wide, and 20,592 on the largest at 3.25 inches wide. 35 trims. Stitch density is 844 which is high for 3 colors, the digitising got the spiral interiors to sit cleanly without the threads fighting each other, which is harder than it sounds at that density. I use this one in examples when I explain to people how density and color count arent the same thing. A customer in my studio last spring was genuinely suprised how many stitches a 3-color cloud could need, she thought Id made an error in the spec sheet.

Hoop it on a firm cutaway stabiliser, 844 density on a thin fabric will pucker without support underneath. Stitch at medium speed through the scroll sections. Pop it onto a black canvas tote, or stitch two side by side on a linen table runner. Use it on denim, navy fabric, or cream, the aqua shifts character depending on the ground color.