Green Floral Border Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres my green floral border. Folk-style tile pattern. Slim repeat strip with chunky 4-petal cross-shaped florets sitting between paired quartet leaf clusters, curling botanical fern fronds linking the blocks. Its like a garden print youd spot on a vintage bandana or kitchen tea towel.

Theres only one thread colour. The sample sewed out deep forest dark green but folks have been buying it in burgundy, navy, mustard, charcoal and rust. One spool, no juggling. Density runs 807, light, sews quick on a domestic machine. Stitch count begins at 2,411 on the lil version and tops at 6,401 stitches on the longest piece. Theres six sizing tiers in the pack, with heights climbing from 3 inches at the small end through to roughly eight inches across the tallest version. Widths hold thin, sitting between point three eight inches and point nine nine inches. Suprised how much detail packs in that strip.

Honestly the symmetry is what makes it tile nicely along a longer hem run. I get messages from quilters all year asking for repeating border motifs that read folk-art rather than fussy victorian style. One customer asked for the mid-size 6 inch run on matching kitchen towels in burgundy thread atop cream waffle weave back in february, and the result looked deliberately handcrafted. Like grandma made em.

Best fabric pairings, woven cotton, midweight linen, flannel, twill or denim. Avoid stretchy jersey because the small cross petals wont sit flat on knit cloth, theyll distort. Reach for a medium cutaway under woven cotton bases. Tearaway suits flannel fine. Pop a water-soluble topper on waffle weave so cross petals hold above the pile. Folk-art charm, locked in.

Run the 3 inch around a pocket band on a tea cloth, stitch the longest version up a christmas table runner side panel for full-length impact. Centre the long version for symmetry, itll read cleanest that way. Pair dark forest green thread on a cream cotton base for the classic look, or swap rust thread on flannel for an autumnal mood. Text me when a colour change throws an error mid-stitch, ill clean up the file for ya.