Teacher Bow Pencil Embroidery Design, Instant Download

A big yellow bow wrapped around a pencil, with 'teacher' written in curly script sitting above the knot. Thats the whole design really, but its digitised with enough fill direction changes and satin-edge work that the bow looks dimensional, not flat. The different yellow tones across the lobes suggest light and shadow. The pencil runs at a diagonal with the eraser on the lower left and the sharp tip at the lower right, both ends coming out from under the bow loops.

Eleven colors in the thread sequence. Mostly yellows and oranges for the bow depth, then pinks for the eraser, grey for the metal ferrule band, and black for all the outline work. Stitch count runs from around 16,200 at the small 3.5 to just under 46,000 at the 7.5 max version. Thats quite a range and the bigger sizes really show off how crisp the script lettering reads. Use a cutaway stabiliser for larger hoopings to keep all that fill density from pulling the fabric. I hooped the 7-in piece on a linen tote last month and the script came out clean enough to read from across the room.

My niece gifted this on a canvas tote to her form teacher last christmas and apparently the teacher loved it. A personalised fabric gift lands differently than a card or chocolates every time. Pop it on a tote, apron, cushion, or notebook cover. Skip dark fabric on this one. The warm gold and pale yellow tones need a light background to read properly. White or natural linen is probably the best base. Youll see the full shading range in the bow that way.