Don't Be Afraid to Spread Your Wings Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Set up the butterfly here as a wide solid silhouette on the left, with the right wing opening up into the space where the quote lives. The left wing is filled with those swooping curved negative-space channels you see on tattoo-style butterfly designs, big heavy arcs that give the solid red fill some visual movement. And on the right side the quote text "dont be afraid to spread your wings" runs in a flowing bouncy script, alot of it in cursive loops that trail into little dot accents at the ends.

But its one single colour throughout. One stop, no changes, 4 trims at the 4-inch size. Thats what makes this one so clean to hoop, no thread swaps mid-run, just load red and go. The satin density on the butterfly body and wing fill is directional so the fill reads as shaded even in solid colour. Stitch count goes from 9,854 at 4 inch up to 22,411 at the 7-inch hoop.

Specs: 5 sizes from 4 to 6 inch wide by PDF, with the largest at 6.01 in wide and 3.70 in tall. Color changes 0, stops 1, trims 36 to 38. Digitised in the software I use with a dense underlay on the main silhouette and a lighter satin density on the text sections so they dont pull tight on the fabric. Drop cutaway behind stretchy fabrics. Pair with tearaway on firm quilting cotton. Run with topping on fleece so the script loops dont disappear into the pile texture.

A customer wrote me a few months back saying she put it on a canvas bag for her daughter who was moving across the country for the first time and it landed perfectly as a send-off. The 5-inch hoop on natural linen reads really well at arm's length.