Floral Butterfly Pattern Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This butterfly doesnt have wings in the traditional sense. Instead the whole wing shape builds from individual flowers and leaves arranged into the butterfly silhouette, so youre basically stitching a flying garden. Orange cosmos, peach daisies, yellow buttercup-style blooms, small indigo clusters, red tulip shapes, and white dot flowers scattered between them. The green body running down the centre is solid satin fill with a neat split for the head. Eight colours and the wing arrangement mirrors left to right pretty cleanly.

Wilcom digitised each flower separately with its own satin column petals or padded fill centre, so they each have that raised slightly dimensional quality folk embroidery is known for. The leaf fill uses a darker forest green to give depth contrast against the lighter flower stems. Seven colour changes across 8 threads and the stitch sequence keeps the jump stitches minimal. The sequencing on the blooms means thread trims dont pull through on top of finished petals.

I get alot of requests for this one from spring and summer apparel makers. Linen tote bags, cotton blouses, spring dresses. One customer last june put the 5.97-inch version on the back of a white linen shirt and it looked like something from a boutique market stall, really lovely. Kids room decor people use it for wall hoops and duvet borders aswell, it fits both audiences honestly.

Works on almost any light fabric because the colour palette is warm and readable. White linen, cream canvas, pale yellow cotton, sage green chambray all look great. Use a medium tearaway on woven fabric, cutaway on jersey. Hoop the design flat since the asymmetric wing height means any tilt reads straight away. Skip dark backgrounds because the white flower elements cant compete.