Green Tree with Roots Symbol Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Mocked up this tree-of-life symbol as a proper circle composition so the above-ground and below-ground halves mirror each other almost exactly. Its a dense spread of individually shaped leaves on branching boughs filling the upper half right to the circle edge. A slim horizontal ground line splits the circle at the midpoint. Below it the roots fan outward and downward in the same branching pattern, so the silhouette comes off as one continuous form reflected. Its all in a single bright green, no colour changes, just clean and direct.

Theres a lot of stitch detail in here. The individual leaves in the canopy each have their own small satin or tatami fill, so on the biggest size at 8 by 8 inches you can actually read each leaf separately. Root lines are slim satin runs that taper toward the tips, and they dont overlap, each one has its own clear lane. Density sits at 512 stitches per square inch, moderate for how much is going on visually. The circle outline is a clean running-stitch border. Stitched out in Wilcom for clean satin transitions, the leaf fill sequence runs in an optimised order to minimise jump threads through the canopy mass. Its the kind of single-colour design that doesnt feel like a compromise.

Five sizes starting from 4.01 by 3.95 up to the big 8.11 by 8-inch round. Stitch count goes from 16k to just over 33k on the largest, so budget your time on the big one. A customer who runs an eco-brand market stall put the 6-inch on cream canvas totes last spring and messaged me after the first weekend to say she'd sold out. Bright green on natural canvas just clicks.

Natural fabrics carry this best. Cream linen, raw canvas, undyed cotton, soft sage green or white backgrounds all let the green read clearly. Works well on knit if you use a medium cutaway stabiliser and water-soluble topping. Avoid busy printed fabrics, this is a design that needs clean negative space to do its job. Hoop firmly and use a medium-weight woven cutaway for anything larger than the 5-inch size.

Use the large on a tote, the medium on a pillow, or the small on an apron bib. All 8 machine formats come in the download so youre probably covered whatever your machine takes.