Floral Rooster Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The whole rooster body carries leaves and fern shapes instead of actual feathers. Every section of the bird, wings, breast, the big sweeping tail, all those areas hold layered botanical motifs. Long pointed fronds fan out and upward for the tail. The comb and wattle sit in a darker teal. Scattered across the belly are tiny pink daisy flowers, five of em, arranged in a circle like a little decorative rosette. Only 3 colours total but the texture makes it look way more complex than that.

Its folk art embroidery, very much in the polish wycinanki or ukrainian folk tradition where the rooster silhouette becomes a vehicle for decorative pattern rather than a realistic bird. The lime green is the dominant colour and it jumps off white linen like nothing else. I been digitising folk designs for years and this one is among my favourites because the leaf fill stitching changes feel at each size. Smaller sizes look tighter and more intricate. The 7.5-inch lets the individual frond shapes breathe properly and ya can see each leaf tip.

A customer wrote me last week after stitching this one on a set of linen aprons she made as farmhouse kitchen gifts. She grabbed two sizes, one for a small pocket apron and one for a full bib apron, and said both looked like boutique pieces. Nine sizes from 3.5 reaching 7.5-in, stitch counts from 20k on the small end up to 43k on the biggest. The density sits at a moderate 893 and Wilcom pulled solid underlay under the leaf sections so everything lays flat even on loosely woven fabrics. And because theres only 2 colour changes the whole thing runs quicker than youd expect for a 43k design.

Pair it on white, cream, oatmeal or natural linen for the full folk art effect. Also looks strong on slate grey cotton. Avoid any busy print fabrics, the leaf detail gets lost fast. Pair crisp cutaway behind woven linen and cotton, the stitch density doesnt need anything heavier. Email me if the colour sequence comes out wrong testing and Ill sort the stop sequence for ya.