Otomi Floral Embroidery Design, Mexican Folk Art Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

The whole design is built around that central bloom which shoots straight up and fans out at the top in hot pink and yellow. Two big butterfly-shaped leaves anchor the base in dark green, and then red poppy-type flowers push out to either side. Its perfectly mirrored left to right the way Otomi work always is, and small blue star dots and aqua sprigs fill in the gaps so theres barely any white showing through.

Twelve colours in here, which sounds like alot but the digitizing spaces the stops out across 11 colour changes and the machine handles it without drama. Drop a colour there are some very minor accent thread stops like the brown and the dark magenta that only use a few hundred stitches each. Worth it though because those dark accents give the piece that aged-textile look, like this came off a real Tenango cloth rather than a digitised file.

A customer hooped the 4-inch on a linen table runner for a Mexican-themed wedding last summer and the couple used it on every chair sash. That kind of border repeat work is honestly where this shines. Run it in a line and it just keeps looking intentional.

Works best on white, cream, or natural linen. The 12-colour spread needs a pale ground to carry. If you go on a coloured fabric pick something very light, maybe a dusty sage or soft terracotta, because the mid-tones can eat the smaller accent colours. Use medium cutaway on woven fabric, and a topping on any loose-weave linen to stop the fills sinking into the texture. Hoop snug because theres alot going on from edge to edge.

Stitch counts run 10k at the small end and 24k at the large, so pretty efficient for 12 colours. The 11 colour-change stops are straightforward and in the same logical colour order throughout all 5 sizes. Drop me a message if anything looks off on stitchout and Ill get you sorted.