Floral Butterfly Garden Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Butterfly silhouette filled top to bottom with a packed mini garden. The wings are stuffed with pastel pink dahlia heads, jade-turquoise shell blooms that read like little fans, lemon yellow tulip petals, orange and tomato red poppies and small leaf vines stitching through the gaps. Black outline holds the wing shape so the bouquet doesnt feel like its drifting apart. The body is a yellow flower head, antennae stitched in fine black satin. Quite a piece really.

Ten colour stops and the design hits 30,500 stitches at its largest 5.79-inch size, dropping to 12,541 at the smallest 2.7-inch. Density runs 701, which sits on the heavier side but is necessary to hold each tiny petal shape clean, the small fills are around 1,500 stitches each on the bigger versions. Five sizes total. I digitised it in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with tatami fills for the flower bodies and light directional satin for the leaves, the colour layering goes lightest to darkest so the dark green leaves stitch last and sit on top of everything.

Now, on hooping, do not skimp on stabiliser. Use a medium-to-firm cutaway, plus a layer of water-soluble topping if your fabric has any texture at all. Cotton sateen, linen, canvas tote material and quilters cotton all work great. Skip terrycloth, the fills will sink. Pick a 75/11 sharp needle and run rayon or polyester 40 weight thread, the colour saturation matters on this one because the pastels will look muddy with cheap thread. Keep your bobbin tension light to avoid show-through under the lighter petals.

One customer ordered it twice last april for matching mum-and-daughter sweatshirts and said both of em looked basically identical to the preview image at the 4.5-inch size. She paired the daughters version with a tiny script name underneath.

Reach out if you need a single-flower trim file from this design, I can pull just the turquoise shell-bloom or just the red poppy if youre customising a project.