The Accidental Embroiderer

April’s free design – the zentangle goat

Last month there was a flurry of interest in the zentangle hare that I posted on the 14th of March, and several people asked if I would send it to them. However there was a problem with this,  because the design was done as a commission for an exhibition, so I couldn’t really pass it on. Also it was a very complicated and difficult piece to stitch out, involving hand-painted fabric and the use of a camera built into the embroidery machine, which not everyone has.

 

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April's free goat

So here’s a free zentangle design, done a couple of years ago, which I hope will make up for my not being able to give the hare away. However it’s still not what you could call a simple design. In the first place it’s quite large – 6.8 x 6.2 inches (172 x 158 mm) – so you’ll need to be sure your machine can cope with this size. It has about 37,000 stitches and 34 colour changes, and it’s also an applique – that is, the figure of the goat is appliqueed onto the background fabric, and then overstitched with various patterns

If you’d like me to send you this design, just drop a comment to the blog asking for the ”zentangle goat” and I’ll send it out to you. As always, the details and conditions of this free offer are set out on the "Free Designs" page (see the link on the menu above).

 By the way, when you stitch this out please pay no attention to the colours in the picture, or the colours that I mention in the design file (various shades of browns for the goat, and blues for the background) With a design like this, you have to use whatever colours you think are right for the subject, and for the use you want to put the embroidery to. So be creative!

 

53 thoughts on “April’s free design – the zentangle goat

  1. Your goat is beautiful! I’d love to have him. Thanks so much for your generosity. 🙂

  2. I am enchanted by your zentangle embroidery and would really appreciate receiving this design to stitch for myself. As a machine embroidery newbie, I’ve yet to try applique, so this will encourage me to venture into that territory too!

  3. I love your designs and would love a download of your zentangle goat.
    Thanks,
    Chis

  4. Beautiful work! I have created a few zentangles my self, but just abstracts. This is wonderful!

  5. Your zentangle goat is wonderful. Would you please send me the design so I can download it? Thank you for your generous spirit!
    Jan

  6. Awesome , please send. You are so creative pushing the envelope with your ideas.
    Spanky

  7. What a neat goat, and just at the time Aries are having birthdays, too.
    🙂
    Yes, please, I’d love to have the design.
    Thank you for all you do for folks.

  8. Never thought I’d ever say a goat was gorgeous but never say never. Your goat is absolutely awesome and I’d love to have it.
    Thank you!

  9. IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR SEWWHATMARTY: I’ve been trying to send you the zentangle design, but you don’t seem to have an available e-mail address, so it’s not been possible. Could you possibly unblock your e-mail address, and then send another message? Sorry about this…

  10. I love your creativity and would really like your zentangle goat design. Thank you so much for sharing with us.

  11. I am much inspired by your designs. I would like the goat please, if it works with Bernina software. Many thanks.

  12. I love your very elaborate zentangled goat and would love a copy of him. BTW, I was able to find the “comment” line by viewing the post on my PC. Safari on my iPad does not include the “comment” line. Weird, huh?
    Thank you in advance for your amazing generosity.

  13. My granddaughter asked me not long ago if I knew what zentangles were because she really like drawing them. I said I was very familiar with them and had seen embroidery designs that were zentangles. Oh, she was impressed! Now, who would have known….a goat is her very fav! I would love to put this guy on a T-shirt for her

  14. Mia, thank you so much for the zentangles goat design. I love your work and creativity. Do you have a favorite thread you use? Thank you for sharing your beautiful work with us!

  15. Very different idea for embroidery! I love it and would love to embroidery this unique design. Please may I have it?
    Thanks for your generosity.
    tmr

  16. Please, I would enjoy stitching out your zen tangle goat. I came here via the BerninaV7 yahoo group.
    Terri

  17. Really a neat goat and background. I must stitch this out, all kinds of ideas are floating around in my head.
    Thank you.

  18. What beautiful work you do! Please, I’d love to have your Zentangle Goat,
    Thank you!

  19. Hope this isn’t a duplicate as it’s my first time doing this.
    I’d love to have the zentangle goat. It’s amazing and I love the design.
    Thank you so much!

  20. I would really like the goat design, just getting into zentangles. Doing it in my embroidery software is so fun.
    Thanks for the design
    Donna

  21. I would very much like to try out your zen tangle goat design. I found out about it, and your blog on the V6 Forum.
    Thanks!
    Cindy

  22. I would love to have this zentangle style goat stitched out. Can you send me the design? Thanks

  23. Please send me a copy of the goat zen-tangle.I love your creativity. Thanks so much for sharing.
    Wilma

  24. Oh I would love to have the Zen tangle goat.
    This is so creative. I also saw a post on the Bernina V7 list. Thank you Mia for your
    generosity.

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