Teacher Pencil with Daisy Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Pencil sits diagonal across the top half of the design. Yellow shaft with a faceted geometric look, blue tip at the bottom showing the lead, peach-pink eraser at the back end. White daisy with a buttery yellow centre tucks right under the eraser. Like a teacher anniversary bouquet got pinned onto the pencil. Two berry sprigs flank the daisy, coral pink berries on green stems with little leaves trailing off.

Below all that Teacher in fat black brush calligraphy stretches the full width. Script has a long flowing T at the start and a curling tail off the r at the end so it ties the floral cluster to the lettering. Honestly the whole thing feels like a card youd draw for your favorite primary school teacher on the last day.

Ten colour stops including black, blue, peach, yellow, green, slate, coral pink and white. Lettering and the warm yellow shaft chew up the bulk of stitch budget, smaller passes go to the daisy petals and berry detail. Around 9k stitches at the 4-inch size, climbing to 22k on the largest, so the design works on small chest patches and bigger tote panels. Definately versatile.

Reach for pale naturals here. Anything in the cream-to-butter family does the heavy lift. Soft pink, oat, dusty grey, even a pale sage all hold the black script crisp and let the pencil body read cleanly. Skip the moody end of the swatch shelf, ink, charcoal, deep navy on any of those, the yellow gives up without a layer of white topping underneath it. Knit jersey wrecks the script too, the bold T tail wants something woven and steady. Last april a customer ordered four 5-inch runs on white aprons for her classroom helpers, came out adorable and shes ordered three batches since.

Stabiliser game depends on the fabric in the hoop. For plain cotton wovens go medium cutaway, single layer, plus a tear-away topper to keep the lettering edges sharp. Heavy duck on a tote? Switch to two layers cutaway because the long script tail tugs hard and youll get wobble otherwise. Jersey needs a fusible cutaway, cant cut corners on stretch. Now run a small sample stitch on an offcut first, especially with the diagonal pencil angle, hoop tension reads different on a slant than it does on a centred motif. Pull the speed back to about 650 spm when the colour change between yellow and peach kicks in since theyre tight transitions. One slipped hoop on the script tail and you cant unstitch easy, worth the extra minute up front.