Butterfly With Wildflower Bouquet Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres the butterfly with the wildflower bouquet and its all soft and springlike. A single butterfly sits at the top with wings half-open, and below it a loose bunch of garden flowers fans out. Pink daisies. Tiny lavender buds. A butter-yellow bloom in the centre. Sage and mint leaves wrapping the stems together like someone just picked them.

Ten colours go into this one and the way they blend is what gives it that proper cottage-garden feel. Wings are stitched with smooth tapered satin columns so the colour gradient on each wing actually reads. The flower heads use short directional fills instead of flat tatami so the petals look like petals. Tiny french-knot style centres on the daisies finish it off.

I drew it for soft fabrics. Pop the 5-in chest run on cream linen tea towel and the blush pinks and dusty blues sing. A customer last spring stitched the 7-inch on a pale grey market tote for her mums birthday and dropped a pic in my inbox, the whole bouquet looked like a watercolour painting.

Stitch it on light woven cotton, linen or muslin for the cleanest read. Pass on charcoal or black grounds, the soft pastel petals fade out completely. Pass on dense pile sweatshirt material too, the fine petal detail flattens out on plush nap. Cream, oat, sage green or pale blush are the safest colour calls, thats just experience talking.

Density runs about 39k stitches on the biggest size with a 728 stitches-per-square-inch average so its not a brick. Use medium cutaway behind, hoop tight, and float a layer of water-soluble topping if ya fabric is a slacker open-weave linen. Email me if any colour reads muted on warm fabrics.