Floral Horse Head Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Its a horse head in profile, facing right, stitched in layered sandy taupe and warm tan with really clean directional fills that follow the curve of the jaw and nose. The mane doesnt just hang down, it sort of merges into a loose wreath of leaves, two different greens, a bright lime on the outer sprigs and a deeper sage olive closer in, with small 5-petal pink daisy-type flowers dotted around the base and top. The whole thing reads like a botanical illustration and a horse portrait at the same time.

At 624 stitches per square centimetre in places, the taupe sections of the face have that smooth satin look you get with pro digitising tools doing the directional underlay properly. The leaves run in a flatter tatami fill which keeps them from puffing up and losing shape. I use cutaway stabiliser on most fabrics with this, linen and canvas sit nice but on any knit you really do need that cutaway or the underlay pulls. Hoop it tight, no exceptions.

A buyer put this on canvas tote bags for an equestrian end-of-year gift set, she ran a big batch of them last week, and when she messaged me after to say the blush flowers looked better than she expected on natural canvas, I nearly fell off my chair. The 7 inch looks brilliant centred on the back of a denim jacket, there's alot of negative space in the design so it doesnt feel crowded even at larger sizes.

Try it on fleece blankets, cotton drill, or a heavy twill cap, the pink flowers come out especially well on cream or white base fabric because the blush stitching has room to breathe. Skip the topping on woven cotton, save it for terry cloth or fleece where the loops need taming. If youre putting it on a tote, position it higher than you think, so the horse nose doesnt get swallowed by the fold at the bottom.

Holler at me if anything stitches funny.