Floral Outline Border Embroidery Design, Instant Download

If the dense black version is the bold one, this is the quiet one. Its the same horizontal border format, a baseline bar at the bottom with botanicals growing upward from it, but everything here is open outline work. The lily-type flower left of centre has petals drawn in outline with the centres left open. The five-petal round flower to the right is the same thing. The leaves and connecting stems are fine outline too. Nothing is filled in solid. The whole arrangement reads airy and light, which means the fabric colour behind it does alot of the visual work.

Single colour, no stops at all during the hoop. Stitch count is 6,591 on the 4-inch wide size up to 12,970 on the 8-inch wide. The heights run from 2.12 to 4.22 inches, so even the large version stays relatively low and neat, which keeps it practical as an actual hem or edge accent. Five sizes means youve got options from a narrow trim on a pocket all the way up to a full tea towel border treatment at the widest.

Because its all open outline youre not locked into one colour at all, and the look changes completely with thread choice. Black reads graphic and bold. A warm terracotta reads vintage. Green reads botanical. Pale grey reads like embossed stationery almost. Ive had customers tell me they ordered it specifically to run in 4 or 5 thread colours across different items in a product range to tie everything together with the same botanical border shape. A few weeks back a customer ordered it for a set of linen placemats and ran it in dusty sage green, and honestly I want to copy that idea for my own home. Theyll probably run a second colourway too once they see how well it sits.

Works best on tightly woven cotton or linen where the outline stitches hold crisp without spreading into the weave. Tear-away stabiliser is fine. Run at standard density and hoop flat with the grain.