Green Bee Floral Embroidery Design, Instant Download

At first look its a bee, then you look again and realise the wings are fern fronds, the abdomen is made of stacked leaf and bud shapes, it reads like a botanical mandala that just happens to look like an insect. The symmetry is dead clean, left side mirrors right side exactly. Grass green fills the body, the leaf sprays fanning out from the centre and the layered frond wings. Warm gold comes in on the wheat-stalk accent pieces and the small bud clusters near the wing tips. Black handles the outlines and the stripe detail across the bee body. Three colours, a lot of heavy lifting.

Dense is an understatement. The density hits 1,332 stitches per square inch with a max stitch count of 56,025 on the biggest size. Run it slow, around 550 SPM on the large size. The directional fills on each frond go in opposing angles to the adjacent ones, which is what creates that folded botanical look, flat one direction, bright the next. Use a heavy cutaway no matter what fabric youre working on, its non-negotiable at this density. Dont try to shortcut the stabiliser on this one.

Nine sizes total, going from 2.61 by 3.51 inches up to 5.6 by 7.51. The smalest fits a jacket chest badge area and the biggest covers a full tote face or cushion front. Try it on dark backgrounds, forest green, deep navy, charcoal, even black. The vivid grass green and warm gold pop hard against dark fabric and it reads like a print rather than a stitched piece. Works fine on cream or natural linen too if you want something lighter.

Three thread cones and two colour changes total, so the stitch out is dead simple to manage. People have been buying this one for garden market gear lately, goes on totes, aprons, pouches, all of it. She told me last month she sold out of her green totes at a spring market after putting this on them. Ping me a quick note if a run goes off register on any of the frond fills and ill sort it.