Peace Hand Embroidery Design: Peace Sign Hand Gesture Machine Embroidery File

This Peace Hand embroidery design is a bold, cartoon-style machine embroidery file featuring a front-facing hand making the peace sign gesture, rendered in a two-color palette of warm medium brown and black. The hand is constructed as a single continuous fill form covering the full palm, raised index and middle fingers, curled ring and pinky fingers, and thumb, with black satin outline work and knuckle crease detail lines applied over the base fill. The composition is vertical and graphic, with strong clean edges that read clearly at the 3.56 x 5.94 inch output size. Total stitch count is 17,887 stitches.

What distinguishes this design from the Little Bulldog Buddy and other designs in this collection that use surface detail lines over a base fill is the anatomical complexity of the hand silhouette itself. A bulldog face is a radially symmetrical form; a hand in a specific gesture is not. The two extended fingers, the curled finger grouping, the thumb position, and the palm and wrist all have different silhouette contours that require independent fill zone mapping, and the crease detail lines must follow the correct anatomical position on each element rather than a regular repeating pattern.

Design Details

The index and middle fingers are the tallest elements, rising as two parallel rounded columns from the upper palm. Each finger is filled with the same warm brown directional fill as the rest of the hand, with a horizontal knuckle crease line rendered as a dark satin arc across the mid-section of each finger. The fingertips are rounded and outlined with the bold black satin border used throughout the design. The V-gap between the two raised fingers is an open void space defined by the inner edges of each finger. The ring and pinky fingers are curled inward and visible as two rounded pad shapes at the right side of the palm, each outlined separately with black satin and carrying a small curved crease line suggesting the knuckle of the curled finger. The thumb extends to the right at mid-palm height as a shorter rounded form, with its own black satin border and a single crease line at the thumb joint. The palm fills the lower center of the composition as a broad rounded fill, with two curved dark satin crease lines running diagonally across the palm surface. The wrist at the base is rendered as a slightly narrower rounded extension of the palm, finishing the hand silhouette at the lower edge. All outer boundaries including finger edges, thumb, curled finger pads, and wrist are outlined with a continuous bold black satin border throughout.

Size Guide

Formats Included

This design is delivered in 26 file formats compatible with all major machine brands: PES, PEC (Brother, Baby Lock, Bernina) | DST, DSB (Tajima) | JEF, SEW (Janome, Elna) | VP3, VIP, SHV, HUS (Husqvarna Viking) | PCS, PCQ, PCD (Pfaff) | XXX (Singer) | ART (Bernina software) | 000 (Singer/generic) | 100 (Toyota) | CND (Melco/Conde) | CSD (Singer/POEM) | DGT (Barudan) | DSZ (Tajima older) | EMD (Elna) | EXP (Melco/Bernina) | INF (design info)

Digitizing Quality

The primary challenge in this design is filling the irregular hand silhouette as a unified form without producing visible fill angle discontinuities at the boundaries between the palm, the two raised fingers, the curled finger pads, and the thumb. Each of these zones has a different orientation, and if each is given an independent fill angle with no relationship to its neighbor, the hand reads as a patchwork of disconnected fill sections rather than a single skin surface. The fill angle was held consistent across the full hand body with zone-to-zone transitions managed through shared underlay rather than hard fill boundaries, keeping the surface reading as a unified volume.

The open V-gap between the two raised fingers is a void that sits surrounded by fill on three sides: both finger fills and the upper palm fill below. At 3.56 inches total width, this gap is wide enough to be stable, but the fill columns running up each finger must terminate cleanly at the gap edge without fraying inward. Edge-walk underlay was applied along both inner finger edges bordering the gap before the finger fills were placed, locking the fill column termination points and keeping the V-gap edges crisp on the finished piece.

The palm crease lines and finger knuckle lines are dark satin arcs placed over the completed brown fill, following the anatomical position of real hand creases. At the palm scale in this design, each crease must be placed precisely enough to read as a natural fold line rather than a decorative stroke. The crease lines were positioned using the hand silhouette as a reference grid, with each line anchored to the anatomically correct zone of the palm or finger it crosses, and sequenced as a final pass after all base fill and border work was completed.

License

This design is licensed for commercial use on finished physical goods. You may sell embroidered items made with this file without per-item royalty. Digital files, including all included formats, may not be resold, redistributed, or shared in any form, whether modified or unmodified.

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Files are available immediately after purchase. This listing includes 1 size in 26 file formats, covering every major home and commercial embroidery machine brand. Download, unzip, and load directly into your machine or embroidery software.