Butterfly With Sunflowers Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Monarch hovering over three open sunflowers brings proper summer energy. A monarch butterfly sits perched up top, wings open wide in rust orange and mustard with a thin black wing border and dotted accent rings, its body thin and dark down the middle, theyre tight little dot stacks on the wing edges. Below the butterfly the trio of golden blooms face the viewer, big golden petals around a textured olive-green centre stitched with a tiny crosshatch fill that looks like real seed-head texture.

Curly gold scrollwork flourishes trail out either side of the bouquet, the curves stitched with a flat satin column so they catch the light at an angle. Dark moss-green leaves anchor the bottom and frame the sunflower stems. Pieced this design together last august for a customer doing a memorial-bench cushion, she shared a photo of the original sunflower painting and I worked it into a butterfly composition for her, ya gotta love a memorial brief.

Quick heads-up, this file is dense, 64k stitches at the top-end 7.5-inch run and a colour density of 1289. Stitch this on khaki canvas, heavy linen or duck cloth, ya machine'll struggle on jersey at full size and the gold satin scroll will pucker. Pop the small version on a tea-towel corner, a tote bag panel or an apron front. Skip dark navy and black, the mustard sunflowers and gold scrollwork lose their warmth and the whole bouquet flattens out, you wont like the result.

Densest spots are the stacked sunflower heads and the curly gold scroll flourishes. Lay heavy cutaway underneath, hoop firm and run a poly topping over the petal directional fill so the vein detail holds, otherwise youll lose the linework. Slow ya rpm to about 600 for the small text-detail on the butterfly antennae, theres alot of trims packed into a tight area. Best on warm cream, oatmeal or olive fabric where the gold and mustard read rich.