Otomi Floral Bird Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This one is the full otomi experience in a single hoop. Four birds sit at the cardinal points of a circular composition, each one facing the center with its wings fanned out in rainbow stripes going pink to yellow to teal. They mirror each other exactly top-to-bottom and left-to-right so the whole thing has that mandala quality where you keep finding new symmetry the longer you look at it. A multicolour flower sits right at the center, each petal a different colour. Around the outside theres a wreath of small buds, leaves and tiny flower clusters that ties the border together.

14 colours total. The palette is flat-out celebratory, hot pink, magenta, red, teal, sky blue, yellow, lime, forest green, orange, brown, purple, navy, with black and soft pink as accents. No colour fights with another because the digitising keeps each block clean with proper underlay before the satin goes down. The satin density sits around 966 stitches per square inch, which is generous but not brutal. Im pleased with how the teal wings sit next to the yellow fills without bleeding at the edges.

Comes in 3 sizes: 6-inch, 7-inch and 8-inch. The stitch count runs from about 47k at the smallest up to nearly 60k at the biggest, so plan for a slow steady run, this is a slow-burn project not a 20-minute job. Last month a customer stitched the 7-inch onto a white linen pillow cover and said the colour pops were unreal against the natural weave. Back with a woven cutaway and keep your tension even through all 14 colour stops, thats the only real rule with a design this dense.

Drop it on white, cream or natural linen for maximum colour impact. On darker fabric the lighter colours like soft pink and yellow lose some punch so youll want to test first. Use a water-soluable topping on anything textured so the fine satin edges dont sink in.

Drop me a message if any of the colour changes give you trouble on your machine and I can talk you through the stop sequence.