Flowers and Butterflies Reading Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Delicate line-art girl sitting cross-legged with an open book in her lap, flowers growing up around her and 2 or 3 butterflies drifting in from the top right corner, one landing on the edge of the book page. Its drawn in a minimal outline style, very low fill density, so the design has an airy hand-sketched quality. Five colours: dusty rose for the flowers and one butterfly, sage green for the stems and leaves, cornflower blue for a second butterfly, warm cream as the base tones and charcoal for the outlines and the girl figure itself.

Stitch count is unusually light for a 5-colour piece, running from just 4,675 at the smallest 3.13-inch width up to 10,290 at the full 6.26-inch size. That low density is why it feels like drawn art rather than a filled graphic. Heights go from 4 to 8 inches, so its taller than wide, a portrait orientation that sits nicely on a tote bag front or a shirt chest panel. Ive run this on plain cotton canvas at the 5-inch size and it stitches in under 20 minutes, which customers appreciate when they message me about turnaround time.

I get a lot of orders from teachers and school librarians for this one. A teacher told me last september that she put the 5-inch version on her own canvas tote and her students kept pointing at it and asking where she got it. She ended up ordering 6 more to give as reading awards at the end of term. Thats not a use I built this for but Im genuinely glad it found that home.

Run it on a natural canvas tote for a book lover gift. Stitch the medium version on a linen cushion for a reading nook. Add the large size to a cotton tee front for a quiet everyday reading life aesthetic. Use a light tearaway stabiliser on cotton canvas, the low density doesnt need heavy backing. Avoid dark fabric unless youre using light pastel thread, the dusty rose reads beautifully on natural linen but goes murky on anything dark.

Skip cutaway entirely for the smaller sizes on woven cotton. The outline pass on the character silhouette is the most detail-critical section so dont rush that last pass. Best run on natural, cream or pale pink base fabrics where the charcoal outlines sit with maximum contrast.