Travel Icons Set Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Made a travel icons set, four lil wanderlust pieces standing in a tidy row. From left, a chunky passenger airplane tilts up like its taking off, with cobalt wings and tail fin. Next a world globe sits on a small wooden stand, sage green continents on a navy ocean. Then an orange rolling suitcase with a pull-handle up. Last comes a vintage camera with a navy body, chrome shutter button and a small red record dot. Engraved hatch-line shading runs through every icon.

Each icon uses cross-hatched shading lines instead of flat satin so the whole row reads like a vintage travel journal sketch. Airplane wings get angled fill stitches that mimic metal panels. Globe ocean uses tight horizontal lines for the water and chunkier sage shapes for the continents. Suitcase shows vertical ribbing fill in orange so it reads atleast a bit textured, like proper canvas luggage. Camera has a black satin lens ring with a tight cobalt body fill behind.

And I built this one for travel agents, journal lovers, retirement gifts and frequent flyer merch. Customers been ordering it for empty-nester travel bucket-list gifts and gap-year backpack patches since march. One customer ordered alot of em last summer, eight totes for her travel book club, hooped one on each cream canvas tote and stitched the members initials over the suitcase. Tiniest hoop fit runs 3.5 by 1.05 inches, max sits at 7.5 by 2.24, sized as a horizontal strip.

So pick a smooth canvas, cotton twill or denim for best results. Cream, oatmeal, soft sage and dusty mustard backgrounds let the cobalt and orange icons pop without fighting. Skip dark navy bases, the navy camera body and globe ocean will dissapear into a navy ground. But avoid stretchy jersey, fine hatching lines warp easy on stretch fabric and theres no fix once its stitched.

Density packs heavy at 1398 stitches/sqin with around 23k stitches at the largest hoop, this design carries alot of cross-hatch detail. Pop a polymesh stabiliser underneath. Hoop firmly and slow your machine speed on the hatched fills. A thin water-soluble film over the hoop helps if youre stitching onto soft canvas so the camera lens detail reads crisp. Run a test stitch first if its your first travel icon.