Colorful Wildflower Border Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Horizontal strip of wildflowers running side to side, sparse and airy, with negative space between blooms instead of densely packed petals. From left to right youve got an orange daisy, a magenta tulip with a red speckle, a small orange tulip bud, magenta cosmos blooms with red centres, and one red bloom with a white centre petal. All sitting on tall thin black stems with pointed dark green leaves. No butterfly, no script, no bird, just the flowers spread out across the strip.

Sizes are wider than they are tall, 3.51 inches wide at 1.45 high on the smallest, up to 7.51 wide at 3.10 high on the biggest. Thats a strip ratio not a square, which is what makes it work as a border. Stitch counts run 5,822 on the smallest up to 12,959 on the largest. Densitys 557, in the mid range, the painterly fill on each petal stays soft without forcing too much thread on a thin fabric. Six colour stops, six colour changes per size, 49 to 67 trims.

I get messages all the time from folks doing apron hem runs and pillowcase trim work, the strip shape suits a band of fabric better than a single big motif. A customer last summer ran 8 cream linen pillowcases in a single weekend with the 7.51-inch strip along the open hem and said the sparse layout meant she didnt have to fight the fabric drift across each long stitchout. I digitised this with directional satin on the leaves so they sit pointing the right way regardless of which end you hoop first.

Hoop on medium tearaway under linen and canvas, polymesh cutaway for tees. Pop the 4.51-inch strip across an apron hem. Stitch the 5.51-inch along the bottom of a tote bag for a garden-market carry. Run the 7.51-inch across the cuff end of a pillowcase. Best on cream, white, soft sage, dusty butter, or pale blue. Skip dark colours because the black stem outline and the leaves blur against deep backgrounds, the colour mix of magenta and orange needs a light fabric for proper contrast, thats the rule of thumb actually.