Ornate Gothic Heart Embroidery Design, Filigree Heart Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

The gothic heart is one of those designs I wasnt sure about when I first digitised it. Its quite different from the usual clean love-heart you see everywhere, the scrollwork pushes well past the heart edge on both sides and the whole thing has a heavy baroque quality that not everyone will want. But the customers who do want it really want it.

The heart itself is a thick satin-stitched outline with an open interior, so it reads as a border rather than a filled shape. Heavy gothic filigree and spiral scrollwork extends outward from both flanks, symmetrically, with thick curling vines and teardrop loops that spread the design to about 6.4 inches wide. At the outer tips of the scrollwork on each side, the shapes shift into half-butterfly wing forms, which gives the whole piece a winged quality without adding a literal butterfly. Theres also a small standalone butterfly silhouette above-left of the heart, which feels like it floated in from elsewhere. All single colour, all black, stitch density at 417 per square centimetre. The contrast between the heavy satin border and the thinner scrollwork linework is what makes this one feel layered when stitched out.

Hoop a firm cutaway to handle the 8-inch height on the largest size without fabric drift. Add a water-soluble topping on any textured surface to keep the fine scrollwork linework from sinking into the weave. Avoid hooping on sheer or loosely woven fabric without double-layer stabiliser underneath, the satin border will pucker at the curves otherwise. Largest is 6.41 by 8.01 inches at 21,435 stitches. Smallest is 4.02 by 5.02 inches at 13,691 stitches. A customer last winter stitched this in white on black velvet and the stitch-out photo they sent back was genuinely one of the best Ive seen.