Floral Ladybug Embroidery Design, Botanical Insect Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Deep teal ladybug tangled in botanical vines and flowers, not a kids patch, more like an illustration pinned to fabric. Its a ladybug but the whole body is wrapped in botanical vines, flowers, curling stems and trailing leaf clusters, all rendered in a single deep teal colour, 2 colours total counting the tiny white detail stop. Theres a lot going on so let me describe it properly.

The body uses open satin sections with dense column stitching on the outline, so the wing dome has a kinda lacy texture when ya hold it up to the light. Spot circles are solid filled and they punch out against the lighter body fill. On both sides of the head sits a big botanical bloom, one five-petal and one a looser open-flower shape, with petals done in narrow satin runs radiating outward from a small centre cluster. Curling stems loop underneath and small oval leaves scatter across the bottom edge. Stitch the 7-inch and those stem scrolls open up beautifully, with real room to breathe at that scale. Go with light cutaway on wovens and a heavy cutaway on any stretch base, the thin vine columns need stable backing or they wander off course during the run. Pop a topping on fleece or velvet to stop the pile eating the delicate scroll lines.

4 sizes from 4 to 7 inches wide, stitch counts from 14,068 to 25,997. Digitising density is 537, firm but not stiff, the fill sections will lie flat on linen or medium cotton without stiffening the drape. One customer asked about scaling for tea-towel border art and the 5-inch at single-row border spacing works really cleanly. Thread colour reference in the PDF: R2 G102 B90, close to Madeira 1093 or Sulky 1162.

One colour change total. The main teal is stop 1 and runs 13,875 stitches at 4-inch, the white is stop 2 at just 191 stitches, practically nothing. Mind your bobbin tension on the long satin stem scrolls, any looseness shows from underneath on those columns and youll see it immediately in the finished piece. A bunch of customers have run this on linen tote bags this spring and it photographs realy well in that earthy teal against natural fabric, the open fill catches light differently depending on angle. If youre unsure about hooping thickness on a structured tote, go for a float method rather than hooping the bag directly.