Beautiful Butterfly Floral Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Spring is when a butterfly floral like this one really gets its moment. This design centres a monarch-style butterfly with hot pink satin wings, black border lines and white dot spots across the upper panels. Around it theres three pink cherry blossom flowers with gold centres and white stamen stitching, deep green leaves with white vein lines cut through them, a few red rosebuds on stems, and black filigree scrollwork curling out from behind the whole thing. Gardens waking up, people pulling out their hoops wanting something that actually looks alive on linen or cotton. Its a lot of elements but they hold together really nicely because the black scrollwork anchors everything visually and gives the directional satin wings a proper frame to sit in.

A seller put this on a linen tote at her spring market last month and said it was the first item to sell out, which dosent suprize me at all. At the larger sizes stitch counts get properly complex, the density is 971 stitches per square inch so the satin fills on those hot pink wings are dense and smooth. For jersey or knit fabrics reach for a medium cutaway stabiliser and add topping on terry cloth or fleece so the pink satin stitches dont sink into the pile. Hooped tightly on denim or canvas the design holds clean without any pull at the filigree edges.

Pick your placement before you hoop, its worth spending a minute on this one. Centre it on a pocket bag, shift it off-centre on a quilting square, or drop it onto a pillow cover where the black filigree scrolls have room to breathe properly. The 3.5 inch version fits a cotton twill shirt pocket well. Avoid thin jersey for the large sizes as the bobbin tension needs something with more body or the tatami fill areas will pucker around the outer satin edges. Add a light cutaway underlay if youre stitching the 7.5 inch on any woven fabric and itll lie flat first try.

Message me a photo if the border stitching looks thin.