Butterfly Sunflower Embroidery Design, Instant Download

A big sunflower, proper sunflower with wide petals and a round studded centre, and kinda just sitting on it are three monarch butterflies. Two up on the flower head itself, one on the left pulling slightly away like its about to lift off. Each butterfly has the full monarch wing shape, that wide upper lobe and the pointed lower one, with the veining drawn inside in fine line detail. All black, all outline and fill, the whole group reads as one botanical silhouette shape.

The composition is taller than wide on the smaller sizes and grows into a near-square by the 7.51-inch. 5 sizes total: 3.27 by 3.51 inches up to 7.51 by 7.51. Stitch count goes from 14,188 on the smallest up to 31,064 on the largest, which reflects how much detail is packed into those butterfly wings. The directional stitching inside the wings is what takes the time. my main software digitised each vein section separately so they sit at slightly different angles and catch light differently in thread, which honestly is what makes it look like an actual naturalist print and not a flat blob.

Reach out if you want the file in a specific format and I can point you straight to it in the download. Last april I got a message from a customer who runs a farmers market stall selling botanical-printed goods, she had stitched the 7.5-inch on twelve cream linen totes and sold out before noon. That kind of feedback is what keeps me digitising designs like this.

Stitch on cream or white cotton for the most botanical feel. The black on cream combo for this kind of nature silhouette is genuinely classic and I get messages from shop owners telling me its their repeat-buyer design for gift totes and aprons. Lay a tearaway on woven cotton, cutaway if youre going onto canvas or heavyweight twill. Hoop the full design centred and dont trim jump stitches early as the wing sections sequence tightly.