Festive Holiday Floral Circle Embroidery Design, Christmas Wreath, Instant Download

Full circular wreath of mixed holiday flowers and botanical foliage, leaves and petals layering over each other to fill the ring completely. No open gaps in the circle, its dense all the way round. Thirteen colours in the design, forest green and deep red doing the holiday anchoring while blush pink, coral, ivory and sage give it that botanical richness you dont get from just holly-and-berry wreaths. The colour range is what sets it apart from a standard christmas garland design.

Four sizes in the file, the smallest at 4.51 by 4.03 inches and the largest at 7.51 by 6.72 inches. Stitch count runs from 21,502 at the small end up to 40,330 at the largest, so this is a genuine full-complexity piece and the machine time reflects that. Wilcom built in proper colour separation between the 13 threads so your colour changes are clean, but there will be a fair number of swaps on this one, its the price of 13 colours. Budget the time accordingly.

I made this one last november because a customer kept writing to ask if I had a floral christmas design that wasnt red and green only. She wanted something she could use on cream linen without it looking like a supermarket christmas card. So I went full botanical, pulled in the blush and coral tones, and gave it more of a garden-party-at-christmas feel rather than a traditional holiday look. She stitched the 7-inch version on a set of oatmeal cushion covers and sent me photos that ended up on my saved folder.

Stitch on cream or oatmeal linen or cotton for the best botanical look. Avoid navy or black because too many of the mid-tones disappear. Use cutaway stabiliser given the stitch density. Hoop taut, keep needle speed moderate on the denser petal fills. Run the design on a test piece of muslin first to check your colour thread tensions before committing to the good fabric. Add a small bow at the bottom of the circle after stitching for an extra decorative touch.