Floral Border Outline Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Flat horizontal floral border, 1,686 stitches at 4 inches wide, all running stitch outline with no fill anywhere. Three plumeria-style five-petal flowers sit at even intervals along the band and between each one theres a swirl of vine scrolls and pointed fern-style botanical leaves leaning outward. The whole thing repeats left to right in a symmetrical garden-style rhythm and tiles neat across a longer hem if ya wanna extend it.

Black single-colour redwork meaning one thread change start to finish. Im not gonna pretend that makes it a complex stitch out, alot of the appeal here is that it stitches up fast and reads sharp on any colour cloth you put it on. Lowest run is 1,686 stitches at 4 inches wide, the longest is 2,525 at 8 inches, so you can knock out the small size in well under fifteen minutes on a basic machine.

Use a fine 60wt or 50wt black thread, you want crisp edges on every petal line. Hoop tight with light tearaway underneath for woven cotton, then switch to a soft cutaway when the ground is jersey or any other knit fabric. Skip terry towelling unless you also topping the design, otherwise the line will sink into the loops and you wont see the leaf veins. White, cream, denim, oatmeal linen, all those neutral backgrounds let the black line do the work.

One customer picked this up for a quilters guild last spring and stitched the 8-inch run along the borders of a sampler quilt block, told me it read just like an inked drawing after the first wash. Stitch the smaller size as a hem detail on a pillowcase or a tea towel, the proportions hold up just as nicely. And the open outline style means it sits flat under hand quilting if you wanna overlay anything on top later.