Colorful Bird Floral Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Im genuinely proud of how much is going on in this one without it feeling cluttered. Theres a big circular wood-branch frame, kinda like a dream-catcher ring but made of thick gnarled brown wood. Inside that frame, a parrot is just sitting there on a branch being absolutely ridiculous with colour. Outside the frame on the left, a tall cactus with yellow daisy flowers growing off it. Red star-shaped blooms scattered around the right side grasses. Its a whole scene.

The bird is the reason this design works. Multi-coloured like a Gouldian finch crossed with a macaw. Red head, cobalt blue wings, orange-yellow belly, dark magenta stripe across the chest, grey feet gripping the branch. 3 colours, nine sizes the bird is NOT nine sizes, its actually four sizes at 4.5 inches topping out at 7.5 inches, and the 15 thread colours get loaded in sequence so the parrot builds up section by section before the cactus greens come in.

Density is high at 69k stitches on the biggest 7.5-inch and 40k on the smallest. Medium-to-heavy cutaway stabiliser underneath, hooped on woven fabric like cotton canvas or twill. Topping film over the green fill sections if youre running this on a towel or textured fabric, the satin rows in the cactus body need a clean surface to lie flat. Underlay matters here because youve got directional fills running at different angles on the bird vs the plant sections. my workhorse software handles that sequencing really well in the file.

Stitch on white, cream, natural linen, or pale sage. A customer dropped the 7-inch onto a cream canvas tote last spring and the colours looked like a painting from a botanic art shop. Skip dark backgrounds because the lime green cactus and pale pink blooms disappear into anything darker than mid-grey. Run a test on your stabiliser combo before the full piece, the 196-plus trim count means a lot of thread changes and you want the bobbin dialed in right.

Add it to cushion covers, tote bags, wall art hoops, or childrens room decor and it looks at home in any of those. its one of the builds where people ask what is that and then immediately want one.