Colorful Tulip Garden Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Its a full garden row of tulips, all jostling together at different heights like they actually grew that way. Red ones, cobalt blue ones, an orange and yellow bicolour bloom, a coral pink, even a white-and-blue striped one at the far right. Each petal is stitched with tight directional satin runs that give em that ribbed, almost three-dimensional look. Little butterflies, four or five of em scattered around, done in the same satin-fill style with tiny black antennae. The whole design sits wide and low, kind of like a flower bed border you'd find along a garden path.

Stitch density on this one sits around 695 stitches per square centimetre, which is solidly in that medium-weight range. The tatami underlay under each tulip head keeps everything smooth on terry or canvas without the topping puckering up. I always recommend a cutaway stabiliser for this kind of multi-element design on anything stretchy, since theres quite a bit going on across the width and you dont want it pulling. The 7.5 inch version is genuinely impressive on a linen table runner, the whole border lands edge to edge and looks kinda like a proper garden scene.

A mum who runs a small market stall messaged me last week saying she puts the 5 inch version on plain white cotton tote bags and they sell faster than anything else shes got at the spring fairs. Honestly I wasnt suprised, the colour mix is just really easy to put on natural fabrics. Pop it on denim or cream canvas and the reds and blues pop straight away without needing any topping over the top.

Use cutaway on fleece or jersey, not tearaway, or the edges on those narrow leaves will lift. Hoop your fabric tight before you start because the leaves have long directional satin columns and any movement mid-stitch shows up as a gap between the green fills. Skip the jump stitch trim on the butterfly antennae if your machine handles em cleanly, they're only a few stitches and trimming by hand afterwards is faster.

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