Floral Books Vase Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Dm me if youre after a book design with a bit of wit to it. Two tall books stand upright side by side, and instead of sitting closed and polished, the top pages fan open just enough to hold a small bunch of wildflowers. Three anemone-style blooms with solid round centres, a few scattered leaves, some wispy thin stems. The whole thing reads as a vase made of books, which sounds odd but actually works really well on fabric.

Wide and low format, horizontal rather than vertical, 2.51 inches wide at the smallest and 6.51 inches at the largest, heights only reaching 1.63 to 4.24 inches. Stitch counts from 2,970 to 7,609, density 275. Single colour throughout, no thread changes. The books get solid satin column outlines on the spines, open satin page detail lines inside, and the flowers are done in outline with solid bobbin-weight centres.

One customer asked about stitching this on a narrow linen shelf runner earlier this year and I said go for the 5 inch version, fits perfectly across a standard shelf width without going edge to edge. She sent me a photo and it looked genuinely like a little botanical print you'd find in an old bookshop. Thats the vibe this design has, it doesnt look like a machine did it.

Use a standard cutaway stabiliser on wovens, tearaway on canvas if youre doing a rigid piece like a bag panel. Stitch the outline sections slow, the fine page-detail satin lines are delicate. Best on white, cream, sage or oatmeal fabric backgrounds where the single dark thread reads clean and sharp.