Floral Sewing Border Embroidery Design, Split Frame Sewing Pattern

This floral sewing border is a split-frame design with two horizontal bars and a clear gap between them for adding a name or initial after you stitch it. Its the kind of layout thats instantly recognisable to anyone who sews. Top panel has a vintage treadle-style machine as the centrepiece, a round pincushion with three pins on the left, and a pair of open scissors on the right. A daisy with leaves grows right up from where the needle sits. Bottom panel is a bit shallower and packs in a bobbin gear wheel, some needles and safety pins, a thread spool, and a small presser foot shape along the bottom bar.

Single colour throughout, no stops or colour changes at all, which keeps the whole run straightforward. The machine body runs in directional satin over 2 or 3 sections so theres a subtle light-and-shadow look even with one thread. Bobbin spokes are satin column, density around 402, so they sit raised and clean on the fabric. Runs from 8,115 stitches at the 4 inch size all the way to 18,787 at the largest, and digitised in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio which means the underlay and density are properly set.

5 sizes in the pack, smallest is about 4 by 2.9 inches, largest is roughly 8 by 5.8 inches. I get messages pretty regularly from people using this for sewing room totes or studio decor hoops. One customer ordered it for a hand-stitched sewing apron, ran the 8 inch version on heavy canvas with a cutaway stabiliser and told me it held up fine after several washes. Another used the small size on a linen zip pouch for storing bobbins, which is exactly the sort of project I had in mind when I put this together.

Hoop your fabric with a firm cutaway stabiliser for any canvas or heavy cotton, and tearaway works fine for lighter wovens. Skip thin silky or stretch fabrics, the fill density can drag them. Reach out through the store if the files give you any trouble and ill sort you out quickly.