Botanical Bee Machine Embroidery, Instant Download

So I drew this bee one afternoon back in june, mum kept telling me her garden bees were bigger than the cartoony ones I been stitching. She had a fair point. The pose ended up as a proper honeybee in mid-flight, body angled downward toward an open poppy bloom, wings stretched up and back behind. Mostly outline driven, with the fuzzy thorax and the striped abdomen done as solid black fills. Poppy underneath is mainly contour too, except for a dark centre dot and a couple of petal shadow spots filled in solid.

One colour, black thread only. Thats your lot. Run it on whatever flat base fabric you fancy and let the contour do the lifting. Five sizes total, widths run 3.51 in through 7.51 in, heights 2.97 to 6.37 in. Stitch counts go 4,667 at the smallest, 10,725 at the largest, so density stays fairly light alot of the run. industry software digitised, Tajima reference file. Fine antennae and the wing vein detail were the bits I fussed over most, those want a smooth steady machine pace.

Best on lighter fabrics so the black reads cleanly. Cream linen, oatmeal cotton blend, natural canvas, soft muslin all play nicely. Skip a deep navy or sooty backing because the whole design is single-thread and youll lose definition fast. Hoop with a medium-weight cutaway stabiliser. Slow the machine on the wings so the long curves dont distort. Pair with a tea-stained base for that journal aesthetic.

One customer ordered this for a set of dinner napkins last spring, ran the 4-inch into each corner of six napkins as a hostess gift bundle. Atleast one other lady wrote in asking if she could shrink it for a bookmark, told her go with the small option and pair tearaway with paper-thin felt. But you can also use it as patch, tea towel motif, apron pocket trim, or a pillow front. Real flexible.

If the file doesnt unzip clean just send me message and Ill rebuild it.