Travel Icons Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Canvas tote bags are kinda where this one shines. The four-icon row sits across the front panel at the 7.5 inch width and it just looks like something you'd buy at an airport gift shop, except stitched. You've got a burnt orange rolling suitcase with yellow-green wheels, a vintage teal camera on a strap, a teal globe with charcoal continent lines, and a stack of gold and orange boarding passes all lined up in a clean row. Each icon has its own satin fill with directional tatami texture underneath, so theres real depth to it even though the shapes are flat and simple.

I use pro digitising tools for the underlay on this one because the outline work is load-bearing. The charcoal outline stitches sit on top of the fills and if the underlay density isnt right the satin lifts on stretchy fabrics. Use a standard cutaway stabiliser on canvas or denim and you wont have any problems. Hooped onto a canvas cosmetics pouch at 5 inches it looks realy clean, the icons are small enough to read as a set but big enough that you can see the individual colours. A crafter I know messaged me last week saying shes been hooping this on denim jacket pockets and the teal globe colour pops really well against dark indigo.

Hoop your stabiliser flat, centre the design, and add a water-soluble topping on terry cloth or fleece if the pile is thick enough to swallow the outlines. Pop a test on scrap canvas first to check bobbin tension because the jump stitches between icons are trimmed in the file but the thread path changes colour four times. Skip dark linen if your teal thread is on the lighter side, it wont show the continent outlines properly. Cotton or linen in cream or natural tones are gonna give you the crispest result for the satin fills on the suitcase and boarding passes.

Hit me up if the border stitching looks thin.