Bee Honeycomb Floral Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Ten colours and 43,877 stitches in the biggest 7.5-inch build, and you can really see why when you look at it. Theres a fat little honeybee front-and-centre sitting on a full honeycomb section, the hex cells each outlined individually, and around the whole thing spring blooms push outward in layered petals of dusty pink, soft white, and golden yellow. Its dense work at 831 density, which puts it in a different category from simple text fills.

At the small 3.5-inch hoop you get 17,794 stitches, and the full 7.5-inch build hits 43,877. That stitch count is no joke for a spring tote bag stitch-out. Use a sturdy iron-on cutaway stabiliser beneath and add a water-soluble film on top if youre stitching onto towelling or any textured cloth, because those petal satin fills will sink into loops otherwise. I built this in my usual software specifically so the underlay on each colour block locks down before the topstitching runs, so registration stays tight even at the largest size.

A customer who runs a small market stall dropped me a note last spring after she ran the 6-inch hoop onto natural canvas pouches to sell. She said the bee detail was sharp enough that people were asking her where she got the digitising done, so Im pretty happy with how the directional satin on the bee body came out. The stripes alternate angle on each segment to give that rounded, glossy look without needing metallic thread.

Best on medium-weight cotton canvas, denim, or linen. Hoop tight and run a slow first pass if your machine is older, the colour change count at 10 means the job will run a while. Pop the finished piece on spring tote bags, baby bibs, kitchen aprons, or framed hoop art. Skip really sheer fabrics, the density will pucker without proper backing support.