Wildflower Butterfly Border Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Denser than a typical border, this one packs alot into a strip thats 4.49 inches wide. On the left a red butterflys perched mid-flight near a red poppy bloom. In the middle, red daisies, a warm orange flower with a magenta centre, and clusters of magenta cosmos with red centres. On the right, blue 5-petal tulip-style flowers and a sprig of black bramble berries with round seedheads. The whole thing sits on lush dark green leafy stems that fill the lower half. Heavier coverages than the average wildflower strip, the leaves do alot of work holding it together.

Sizes are wider than tall, thats 4.49 inches wide by 2.16 high on the smallest, up to 7.50 wide by 3.60 high on the largest. Stitch counts run 11,402 on the smallest up to 19,005 on the largest, the dark green leaf fill alone hits 6,676 on the biggest size. Densitys 704 mid-range, leaning denser, the leaves are properly filled rather than line-art, which was a deliberate choice. 6 colour stops, between 77 and 92 trims per size.

The butterflys the focal point, it sits about 60 percent up the left side of the strip and the eye lands on it first, then youre travelling right across the flowers. I digitised in my software with directional satin stitch on the butterfly wings so the wing patterns read sharp, the rest is a proper painterly fill. The seedhead sprig uses tiny tatami fill on each round bramble berry, no satin.

One customer last march used the 5.50-inch on a cottage-curtain bottom hem run, 4 panels across her front window, each panel hooped tight on permanent cutaway. Said the leaves filled out the band well and that little butterflys readable from across the room. Stitch directions important here, hoop with the long axis of the strip parallel to the warp of the fabric.

Hoop on medium tearaway under linen or cotton, polymesh cutaway under stretchy knit. Pop the 4.49-inch on a tea-towel cuff. Stitch the 5.50-inch on the bottom hem of a curtain panel. Run the 6.50-inch across a cottagecore apron waistband. Its best on cream, oatmeal, sage, dusty blue, or pale butter. Skip dark navy and charcoal because the dark leaf coverage merges into the background and youll lose half the design.