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Details
- Size
- 66 × 65 mm
- Stitches
- 8,966
- Colours
- 7
- Stitching time
- ≈ 19 min (700 stitches/min)
- Recommended hoop
- 10 × 10 cm
- Formats
- PES · JEF · VP3 · DST · EXP · HUS
- Category
- Halloween
Threads to prepare
- Pale pink #e09baa
- Slate blue #936d89
- Plum #582b56
- Plum #431140
- Plum #703d67
- White #ffffff
- Pale pink #cab6c8
About this design
Cuddly Bat shows a small smiling bat in mid-flight, with a plum-coloured body and wide open wings in pale pink veined with blue-grey. Its big round eyes and cheerful grin make it friendly rather than spooky, and a few little bat silhouettes flutter around it. The style is illustrated, with clean outlines and soft filled areas.
At 66 × 65 mm it sits nicely on a baby bodysuit, a pencil case or a cotton tote bag for trick-or-treating. On jersey, use a cut-away stabiliser so the outlines do not pull, and pick a light or soft orange background: the plum of the wings stands out well in machine embroidery.
How to stitch it
- Prepare 7 threads: pale pink, slate blue, plum, plum, plum, white, pale pink. The names give the closest shade; pick the one you like in your thread brand.
- Hoop the fabric in a 10 × 10 cm hoop with a stabiliser: tear-away for woven fabric (cotton, linen, canvas), cut-away for stretchy fabric (T-shirt, sweatshirt, bodysuit).
- Stitch the colours in this order: pale pink → slate blue → plum → plum → plum → white → plum → slate blue → pale pink → plum → plum. The machine stops at each thread change (10 changes, 47 trims).
- Allow about 19 minutes at 700 stitches per minute, 8,966 stitches in all.
- For another size, open the design in the studio rather than enlarging it on the machine: the stitches are recalculated and the density stays right.
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Updated 2026-10-14.