Elegant Sunflower Embroidery Design, Botanical Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Its a sunflower done in that old engraving style, the kind you'd find in a botanical atlas from 1880 something. No colour, just black and grey, and it works harder for it. The centre disc has a dense crosshatch grid that builds up into a dark bullseye at the core. Each petal fans out from there with tight parallel lines running its length, so the whole flower reads like it came off a copper plate, not a machine.

And its not flat either. The petals sit in two clear rows, inner and outer, offset from each other so you get full layered depth without it going muddy. Outer petals catch more line density at the tips, which pulls your eye around the bloom. Dark tatami fill on the disc stitches firmer than the petals, so theres a real contrast in texture when you run your finger across it, the disc almost feels rigid against the softer petal fill.

Density's 627 stitches per square inch, so its one that takes its time. Biggest size runs close to 35k stitches at 7.43 by 7.51 inches, smallest is 3.47 by 3.51. Use a medium-weight cutaway on woven fabric. Add a lightweight tearaway topping on anything with a nap so the fine crosshatch lines stay crisp on the surface, dont skip that step or the crosshatch legs blur into the fibres and you lose the whole vintage print quality. A customer last spring tried this without topping on a velvet tote and the disc lines completely disappeared, sent me a photo, wasnt pretty. Slow the machine speed down on the dense disc section too, the tatami stitch count there is heavy.

Black or dark charcoal thread on white or cream fabric is the obvious move and it really sings that way. I've also seen it done in sepia on natural linen, which gives it a proper antique field-guide feel. Pick a high-contrast combo and youll get your money's worth. Holler at me if a thread shade isnt working out and Ill point you at the right thread.