Butterfly Wildflower Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The butterfly here isnt the centrepiece in the showy wings-wide sense, its sitting among the wildflowers like it actually belongs there. Lavender wings, half open, with the wildflower stems and scattered blooms coming up around it. The flower heads are small and meadow-style, not big structured roses, more like field daisies and small scattered blooms that give the whole thing that loose summer meadow feeling. Theres a lightness to this design that alot of the bolder multi-colour pieces dont have.

4 sizes from 3.36 to 5.6 inches wide, height runs taller at 4.51 to 7.51 inches so this is a portrait orientation design. Stitch count 25,787 to 46,872. 5 colours only, density 1,115 which means youll get good coverage without the weight. The stems and leaf areas use thin satin columns that stay crisp, even the tiny flower detail stitches are digitised in properly so nothing turns into a blob on the smaller sizes.

My friend stitched this last spring on a linen tote for herself and she send me a picture saying she gets stopped at the farmers market almost every week. Small design, big reaction. 5 thread swaps is easy to manage even on a basic home machine.

Use light tearaway on woven linen or cotton. Cutaway for any knit. The tall portrait orientation works really nicely as a centred design on slim bags or as a sleeve detail on a lightweight jacket. Try cream, white or pale sage backgrounds to keep the meadow mood. Avoid bright or busy fabric patterns since the delicate stem lines get lost against anything too noisy.