Birthday Cake Motif

About This Design

This birthday cake design stitches out at 82.0 × 99.5 mm (3.2 × 3.9 in) and uses 8 thread colors across 8 color changes. Total count is 7,706 stitches at a density of about 94.4 stitches/cm².

At The Machine

• Estimated stitch-out time: ~13 minutes at 600 spm
• Color changes: 8, automatic trims: 15
• Follow the color sequence table above — thread numbers refer to the chart programmed in the file; match them to your brand by color.

Fabric & Hooping

At about 94.4 stitches/cm² the fill is moderate: one layer of medium-weight cut-away handles most wovens, while knits want a second layer or a fusible backing. At 82.0 × 99.5 mm reach for a 5×7 in hoop.

Thread Colors in This Design

DST files store stitch data but no thread information, so the colors below are our suggested DMC match. Swap in whatever you have in a similar shade:

• 815 Medium Garnet
• 721 Medium Orange Spice
• 702 Kelly Green
• 996 Medium Electric Blue
• 550 Very Dark Violet
• 645 Very Dark Beaver Gray
• 3705 Dark Melon
• 741 Medium Tangerine

Stitching Notes

8 colors across 8 changes makes this a real thread-management job: lay the spools out in sequence order first and keep the color chart to hand. DST stores stitch data only, which is why the color list is a suggestion rather than the digitizer's original choice.

What to Make With It

Motifs like this scatter well — single placements on pockets and yokes, or repeated across a quilt block, a set of napkins or a child's blanket. It reads the same at any orientation, so placement is forgiving.