Ocean Turtle with Flowers Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Worked this up as a top-down view of a sea turtle floating mid-swim. The shell has those chunky geometric panel divisions you get on a real green sea turtle, and each panel has a fine textural line running through it so theres actual depth to the carapace rather than just flat shapes. Flippers spread wide, the front two angled forward and the rear ones trailing back. The scale pattern on the flippers is hand-drawn in style, small overlapping shapes that build up into something that looks genuinely organic.

Behind the turtle theres a pair of hibiscus blooms, one tucked behind each shoulder. The petals fan out with light outline veins. Bubble rings float up from the top-left corner, stacked in a loose diagonal, which gives the whole thing that underwater feeling without needing to draw an ocean. Its all black linework, no fill, so every shape reads from the running stitch outline and the internal line textures inside.

Five sizes from 3.51 by 3.39 inches up to 7.5 by 7.25. Stitch count runs from thirteen thousand 304 to twenty-six thousand 392. Dense enough to be interesting, not so dense it takes an hour to stitch. One colour, no thread changes, Wilcom EmbroideryStudio for the digitising. A customer who makes beach-themed home goods sent me a photo last summer of this one on cream linen cushions she did for a coastal rental cottage. Said it photographs beautifully for listing shots.

Cream linen, natural cotton canvas or white denim all work brilliantly here. The open linework needs a clean pale background to read properly. Try the medium on a beach bag or the large centred on a round hoop for wall display. Hoop firmly with a light cutaway stabiliser and float a piece of water-soluable topping on looser weaves so the fine running-stitch lines sit on top of the fabric rather than sinking in.