Zebra Pair Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Mocked up this two-zebra design for people who wanted both animals rather than just the portrait head. The two are standing next to each other, the shorter one on the left turned a bit sideways and the taller one facing forward. Its not mirrored, they have different postures so the composition feels natural rather than copy-pasted. The stripes run across every section of both animals, legs included, which is what makes this one take more stitches than the portrait version.

Plotted in my software. Density sits at 627. Five sizes from 2.85 inches wide up to 5.70 inches, stitch counts from 13,675 to 28,647. Youll notice the design is taller than it is wide at most sizes because the animals are standing upright, so its more of a portrait orientation than a landscape one. Forty-six trims in the smaller files, 51 in the largest. Use a cutaway stabiliser here, this amount of dense satin on a sweatshirt fleece really needs it or the stripes pucker at the leg sections where the stitching direction changes. Skip tear-away entirely. Stitch it on a structured cotton or canvas if youre not sure about the fleece.

A customer asked me last month about running this in cream thread on a charcoal sweatshirt but the file is single colour, so they went with matte black on the charcoal and the cream came through as the fabric gaps between stripes. Suprised at how well that worked. The charcoal base acts as a mid-tone and the black satin stripes read as dark against it while the gaps show the lighter charcoal underneath. You get the zebra pattern without needing a two-colour run. Best placement Ive seen is centred on the chest at the 5-inch size. Add the name of a safari park or wildlife reserve underneath and its basically a proper wildlife charity tee.

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