About this Sleeping Black Cat Gold Crescent Floral Bats embroidery pattern
Sleeping Black Cat Gold Crescent Floral Bats brings celestial and botanical details into a hand-embroidery composition. Study the colored design and outline together before choosing which shapes to shade, outline or simplify. The supplied guide identifies these motifs: curled sleeping black cat with cream inner ears on a textured old-gold crescent, charcoal bats, orange and ivory daisy-like flowers, sage foliage, dark curving stems, and scattered gold stars / dots.
The colored image is a design reference. Thread, fabric and your stitch choices will affect the finished result. Preserve the open spaces around the smaller motifs and test difficult fills on a spare piece of fabric before stitching the main design.
Printable outline preview
This watermarked preview shows the transfer drawing. Clean outlines are included in the purchased pattern PDF.
Choose your hoop size
The outline pages are labeled for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 inch hoops. Measure the printed design before transfer, because printer margins and fit-to-page settings can affect its dimensions.
A larger version gives fine contours and clustered motifs more room. Select the size that preserves the details you want to stitch.
Color and stitch guidance
The supplied guide proposes 15 DMC colors. Compare important shades with real floss under your working light.
The supplied guide labels this design intermediate. Allow time for controlled spacing and detailed areas.
natural ivory or warm white linen / cotton-linen
Stitching sequence
- 1. Transfer & center Center the crescent and sleeping cat first, then place the circular floral branches and four bats. Mark the outer stars only after the wreath spacing is balanced so the design remains even inside the hoop. 2. Cat & facial details Fill the cat with 310 in directional long-and-short stitches, changing the stitch angle around the head, back, belly and curled tail. Use 3865 / 822 sparingly inside the ears and one strand for the tiny closed eyes, mouth and... 3. Textured gold crescent Build the crescent with 729 and 680, shading selected inner and lower areas with 3826. Follow the moon arc with split or long-and-short stitches, then add small detached-chain curls or French knots to reproduce the raised stitched texture. 4. Orange & ivory flowers Use 920 / 921 / 922 on the orange petals and 3865 / 822 on the pale daisies. Keep petals radiating from the center; work clustered 729 French knots in flower centers for the dotted texture visible in the artwork. 5. Sage leaves & dark stems Work 934 / 936 / 3012 in fishbone stitch, directing stitches from the center vein outward. Use 3021 / 3371 for the curving stems and short branch joints, keeping them fine so the foliage remains airy. 6. Bats, stars & finishing Fill the bats with 3799 and 310, using one-strand straight stitches for wing membranes. Add 729 stars and dots last, then check that the crescent stays the brightest focal mass and that fabric remains visible between all motifs
Review the full guide in your download for motif-specific thread placement. General techniques are covered in pattern transfer methods and finishing an embroidery hoop.
What your download contains
Your purchase opens a private Google Drive folder containing the three listed PDFs. The clean outline is inside the main pattern PDF. The gridded image reference is separate from the surface-embroidery drawing and is not a machine embroidery file or a symbol-by-symbol DMC cross-stitch key.
Download access appears after payment is confirmed, with recovery available through the purchase email. See the delivery policy for access and support details.
Pattern questions
Is this for hand embroidery?
Yes. The outline and stitching guide are for hand embroidery. No machine-ready PES or DST file is included.
Will I receive a physical kit?
No. This is a digital pattern package. Hoops, needles, thread, fabric and a finished piece are not included.
Can I sell a finished embroidery piece?
You may sell small quantities of physical pieces stitched by you under the pattern license. You may not resell or share the digital pattern files.
What if I cannot open or download the files?
Use order recovery or contact support with your order reference. Damaged files, duplicate purchases and delivery problems are covered in the refund policy.
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