Butterfly Rose Drip Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The butterfly sits at the top with wings half-open in that mid-land position. Pink and black outer wings, the inner forewing panel shifts to a pale yellow-green which stops the whole shape reading flat against light fabric. Its a detail thats easy to miss in the preview but makes a real difference once stitched. Fine vein stitch lines run through each wing section. Below it the rose opens in full bloom, petals layered in purple, teal, pink and cream all at once, each petal a different thread colour so the whole flower looks almost tie-dyed. No single colour dominates, the palette swirls together the way an acrylic pour painting does.

Then the rose base melts. The bottom of the bloom dissolves into a flat black oval, and from that oval the drips fall straight down in a row, hot pink, yellow, teal, cyan, each one a separate smooth rounded drip shape tapering at the tip. People stop and ask how the drip effect was done because it reads as movement on static fabric. Fourteen thread colours total, and the transition between the floral section and the drip base is where most of the colour changes stack up. Plan your spool order before you start stitching, its the kind of thing thats easy to sort in advance and annoying to fix mid-run.

Vertical format, 4.02 inches wide and 7.51 tall at the largest size. Stitch count runs from 13,324 up to 31,332, medium density at 1,038 stitches per square inch so its not as heavy as some of the bigger stitch fills. Hoop a soft cotton twill or quilting cotton, the layered petal fills sit cleanly on a flat weave rather than sinking into fabric texture. Choose mid-weight cutaway on anything getting regular use, tearaway is fine for display pieces or framed hoops.

Pick white, cream, or black for the background. Skip very dark jewel tones where the teal in the rose competes with the fabric colour underneath. Smallest size is 1.88 by 3.51 so you can stitch it on a pocket, zip pouch front, or small clutch panel. A customer who hand-sews bags put it on a cream canvas clutch last winter and sold out before the afternoon ended at her first craft fair of the season.

Nine sizes in the download. Fourteen colours is properly a lot of spool changes so dont go in without checking the thread order first, it is an easy thing to mess up mid-stitch and annoying to unpick. Use the contact page if the drip shapes have pull marks between colour zones and the stabiliser setup will get checked over.