Floral Book with Butterflies Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Open book with butterflies fluttering out from the pages, designed because a customer told me she couldnt find a book embroidery that felt grown-up. Most of them are either too literal or too cute. So I went botanical. A book splayed at a natural reading angle, the spine sitting at the bottom, pages curling slightly at the corners the way a well-read paperback actually looks. From the spine and between the pages, wildflowers grow up, a few loose blossoms in blush and lilac, some sage green stems with tiny leaf clusters, a small trailing vine on the lower page corner. Two butterflies, one on the left page and one perched on a flower, both small and detailed with satin wing columns.

9 colours across the whole piece but the palette is genuinely soft, nothing shouts. Density measures 511 stitches in each square inch, low and deliberate. my professional tool kept the fills light and the piece has that quiet hand-embroidery feel even on a machine. Stitch range is 10,465 at the small 3.23-inch wide size up to 26,498 at the 6.92-inch wide. That low density means it stitches fast and sits flat on lightweight fabric, which is exactly what you want for linen, quilting cotton or jersey totes.

She wanted it for a book club tote bag, the 5-in across the natural linen bag, and she told me it was the first embroidery she had ever framed afterward because it looked that good on the fabric. Thats the kind of thing I aim for with this kind of design. A tear-away stabiliser works fine for the smaller sizes on woven fabric, but go cutaway on anything stretchy or on denim aswell because the botanicals have fine running-stitch stem work that needs the extra support to stay flat.

Cream, natural linen, warm white cotton, and soft sage fabric all carry this palette well. On dark fabric the whole mood shifts and becomes more dramatic, forest green or navy base with ivory and blush thread reads jewel-toned and its actually a nice look for a winter book-theme gift. Avoid busy patterned fabric because the botanical detail gets lost in the noise. Skip anything with a strong weave texture below 4 inches aswell, the thin stem stitching wont sit evenly on rough canvas at that scale.

8 file formats included in the zip. If a stem detail looks light on your machine reach out with your machine model and Ill send an adjusted density version that day.