Butterfly Wildflower Garden Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Four butterflies at different sizes hover over a wildflower meadow. The biggest one at the top has wings in sky blue with black outlines and white dot accents, the one below it goes coral pink with the same black border treatment, and the two smaller ones near the bottom are yellow and white respectively. Below them all a cluster of wildflowers fills the base, purple lavender stems, pale blue forget-me-nots, coral-red poppies, and a scatter of small white daisy heads with yellow centres. Its a genuinely full composition and looks like a botanical illustration once stitched.

At the 7.5 inch size this one runs around 50,000 stitches, which puts it firmly in the complex tier. The wing fills on all four butterflies use directional satin and each one has its own underlay pass to keep the colour boundaries clean. Use a cutaway stabiliser on anything stretchy, and honestly a cutaway on canvas and denim too because of the overlapping satin sections in the lower flower cluster. Hoop it tight, the registration on a piece this complex is the difference between a print-quality stitch and a result that reads muddy up close.

A crafter who does summer gift sets last week put the 5 inch version on a set of cream linen pouches and said they sold before she even got to the end of her stall setup. Stitch it on natural linen and the watercolour feel of the butterfly palette just comes through. Use 40wt thread on the fine black butterfly outlines and the antennae work so the detail stays crisp at smaller sizes. Pop the 4 inch on a denim jacket back panel and it looks like a hand-painted vintage illustration.

Reach out if the butterfly registration slips between colour passes.