Rainbow Tulip Flower Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Spring is the season people start clearing out the plain jackets and tote bags and wanting something with actual colour on it. Thats when this one gets a lot of attention. Its a pink tulip, full bloom, sitting on a green stem with two broad leaves, and wrapped around the whole thing is this swirling rainbow ribbon that loops into an oval frame. The ribbon has those really clean satin-stitch bands running through it, blue into yellow into orange into red into pink, so when its stitched out you get this gorgeous colour flow that almost looks like it moves.

A seller wrote me last month about her cream linen tote stopping people mid-walk at her spring market stall. I believe it. The density on this one is high, around 725 stitches per square centimetre, so the colours sit realy solid and there's no fabric peeking through the ribbon. Pair that with a cutaway stabiliser on anything stretchy or a tearaway on firm cotton twill and youll get a clean result. Hoop tight. The satin sections on the ribbon are long runs and any slack in the canvas or denim shows up fast.

Pop it on the chest pocket of a jacket for the 3.5 inch version, or use the full 7.5 inch on a fleece blanket where you want it to fill the centre panel. Skip the topping on dark fleece and just use a light tearaway, the satin catches the light fine without it. For jersey or terry cloth, underlay matters a lot here, the directional fill on those long ribbon bands needs something firm underneath or the edges lift.

Give me a shout if your hoop fights the design.