Detailed Honey Bee Embroidery Design, Realistic Bee Nature Pattern, Instant Download

This is one of those designs I spent a actually long time getting right. The bee is side-angle, wings spread, abdomen striped in amber and black, thorax done with fuzzy directional stitching that actually looks like bee fuzz rather than just a flat brown blob. Getting that texture on something this small took a few rounds of digitising before it looked proper.

Six colour changes, 5 sizes from 3.31 to 7.12 inches, stitch count from 34,470 up to 80,461 on the largest. Density is 1,507 which is high but its spread across a lot of sections so the machine has time to settle between the dense thorax fill and the lighter wing areas. The wings use open tatami stitching that gives em a kinda translucent quality, not just a solid fill. Six threads: amber, black, cream, brown, orange and a dark outline shade.

A customer last summer ordered this for a botanical and nature collection, and also a lot from gardeners who want to stitch something onto their shed aprons or canvas bags. One customer wrote me last summer saying she stitched it onto a cotton garden hat and it came out better than she expected.

Pop it on natural linen, cotton canvas or heavy denim for the best results. The high density needs a firm cutaway stabiliser, dont try tearaway for anything over 4 inches. Use a good underlay pass before the amber fill sections or youll see the fabric through the thread on lighter fabrics. Avoid busy printed fabrics, the 6-colour detail gets lost against any pattern. Slow your machine speed down slightly on the wing sections to keep the open mesh stitching clean.