Tonight We Fly Chicken Witches Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Right so this is one of my best sellers every october and Ive not had any colour-sequencing complaints yet. Five fat hens standing in a row, all different and all wearing witch hats. Left to right: first one has an orange hat with black and yellow stripes and a ribbon, second is white with a tall purple hat with a gold buckle, third is a rooster with a big red comb and no hat just his own crown, fourth is a brown hen with a blue and white checked hat, fifth is another white one with a plain black pointed hat. The middle one, the rooster, is holding a broomstick across his body like hes ready to sweep up the yard or ride it, your call. Below all five is the text TONIGHT.. WE FLY! in big bold black satin block letters that take up roughly the bottom third of the design.

19 colour stops makes this a longer run on the machine, plan your bobbin before you start. Smallest is 2.63 by 3.5 inches at 17,218 stitches, biggest is 5.66 by 7.5 at 42,488 stitches. The density is 1001 stitches per square inch, fairly packed, which is what keeps those individual hen feathers and hat details crisp at the mid and large sizes. Digitised in my embroidery software with directional fill on each hen body so the feather texture actually looks like feathers rather than a flat blob. Use a firm cutaway stabiliser and hoop the fabric tight, the wide horizontal composition will pucker at the sides if theres any give in the hoop.

I got a message last halloween from someone who stitched the 5-inch on the back of a canvas apron for a farm-to-table dinner party with a halloween theme, put it on her own apron while she cooked. Said her guests kept stopping her in the kitchen to read the text out loud. Thats the kind of design where the joke lands every time someone sees it. Best on black, dark navy or deep purple fabric where all those warm hen browns and the hat colours pop. Stitch on white or cream and the design still reads but you lose the drama of the contrast.

Run the largest size for a back-panel jacket or hoodie print area. Use the 4-inch for an apron bib or a tote front. Avoid stretchy fabric for this one, the wide stitch count and tight density really needs a woven base like canvas, denim or cotton drill. Add a medium-weight cutaway and float a water-soluble topping if youre stitching on any texture that might swallow the tiny hat details. Message me if any of those 19 colour stops are giving your machine grief and Ill sort out a simplified colour list for you.