Flying Swallow with Flowers Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Flying swallow mid-dive, wings flung wide so you get the full span from tip to tip. Deep navy covers the back and wing tops, then a warm brick red patch sits under the chin, and the chest is a clean cream white. And that long forked tail is what really sells it as a barn swallow rather than just any bird, two thin tail streamers splitting apart at the tip.

Around the swallow there are five or six large pink blooms, the kind that read as cherry blossom or wild apple flower, big open petals with a small dark stamen cluster in the centre. Bright green leaves tuck in at the edges so the whole composition sits like a vertical oval. The fills are all directional satin on the bird body so the thread catches light along the feather lines. Pink petals use a lighter hand so theres still some translucency to em, which is exactly what you want on the blooms.

Eight colours in total: navy, red-orange, cream, two shades of pink, dark maroon for the stamens, two greens for the leaves. Biggest size runs 5.82 by 7.5 inches at nineteen thousand six hundred stitches, smallest is 2.72 by 3.5 and sits at just over eight thousand. Scales from a shirt pocket badge right up to a full tote panel or denim jacket back.

Use a medium cutaway on stretch goods, tearaway on firm woven cotton. Skip fluffy fleece or heavy terry, the petal edges bleed into the pile and youll lose the stamen detail. It's just not the right surface for fine line work. White cotton, natural linen and pale denim all let that navy really pop.

One customer put the 5.82-inch on the back of a pale denim jacket last spring, sent me a photo, and it genuinely looked like something from a boutique market stall. Spring pink and navy together dont feel childish, theyre more like something off a vintage travel poster. Stitch it on a canvas tote and people will ask where you bought it.