Floral Folk Art Heart Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Folk art floral heart in three colours, dark green vines wrapping the outer heart shape with pink and red blossoms clustered inside. The flower heads are blocky and simplified the way old eastern european needlework treats them, no shading, just flat satin fills with clean black outlines holding the shapes together. And the leaves run in a directional pattern around the heart edge so the curve actually reads as a heart and not a blob.

A customer wrote me last christmas asking for the colour breakdown before she ordered. Dark green is the outer vine, blush pink the smaller blossoms, deep red the centre cluster. Stitch count runs 12,044 at the smallest 3.01 inch up to 29,023 at the 7.01 inch, density sits at 679 which is medium-heavy so go with a cutaway under anything stretchy or loose woven.

I digitised this one in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with proper underlay under the satin columns so the top layer dont sink into the green base. 2 colour changes in the sequence, dark green first, then pink, then red. Trims occur at 59 jumps so set your machine to auto-trim or youll be snipping alot.

Best on natural linen, oatmeal cotton, cream canvas, or sand twill where the folk colours pop without competing. Skip black or navy fabric, the dark green disappears. Pop a layer of tearaway topping if youre stitching on a waffle weave or anything with surface texture. Pair the 4 inch size with a square cushion centre, or run the full 7 inch across a tote front. Holler if the file dosent open on your machine, I keep DST PES JEF VP3 HUS EXP XXX CND ready and can rebuild fast.