- Description
This semi design is digitized with the trailer included, but by skipping the first three colors, the tractor itself can be stitched alone. Although it’s not an enormous design, it’s very stitch-intensive and takes a good while to run. Perhaps I could have done this with a lower stitch count, but IMHO the detail I put in it made the extra time worthwhile.
As with all my truck designs, I have added tread to the tires not only for the detail it provides, but also to combat the issue of trying to do black tires on a black jacket, causing the end result to look like the truck body is flying in the air, because there is no contrast between the black wheels and the black jacket. Plus, it just looks nicer. Stitch the tread in dark gray for realism.
8.86″wide by 8.13″tall
95,777 stitches
11 color changes
Stitching without the trailer reduces the size to 8.20" wide by 8.13" tall, and the stitch count goes down to 76,276.
The download is a zip file of the dst, and a jpg file of the color sequence, since dst files have no built-in color information. I do not export other formats. The colors are referenced to the Isacord chart.
Please be sure your hoops are large enough to stitch this file as it is, because it cannot be split, with the exception of eliminating the trailer, and that doesn’t reduce the size by very much.