Red Frog Floral Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Its a tree frog taking up most of the frame. Body spread wide. Front feet reaching out like its mid-climb up a wall. Whole body is done in red satin with this fine directional crosshatch underlay that makes the colour look textured rather than flat. The little eye is a black teardrop with a white circular highlight stitched right into it. Small scatter of red leaf-outline shapes drift around the lower half of the body, kinda like botanical illustrations that didnt quite stay in their lane.

And then theres the flowers. Big, open, hand-drawn botanical florals stacked over the left shoulder and chest area. Black outlines only, no colour fill anywhere in that cluster. There are two or three large poppy-type blooms with open centres, some daisy shapes with rounded petals, leaves pointing in every direction and a handful of smaller filler flowers sitting in the gaps. The contrast between the solid red frog body and those open black line florals is exactly what makes this one interesting.

Last spring one customer requested the 7-inch hoop on a linen market tote and said the red and natural linen combo looked like a print you'd pay alot more for in a boutique shop. And honestly thats the vibe. The design sits well on neutral fabric where the black linework can breathe and the red satin body pops cleanly against it.

Best on white, natural, light grey or warm cream fabric. Skip anything dark because the black outlines are doing alot of work here and they disappear on dark grounds. Hoop your fabric over a medium-weight cutaway stabiliser for the satin sections. The open line-art florals dont pull hard but the frog body has decent density so the stabiliser earns its keep. Use a sharp needle and keep thread tension a little loose on the satin fill to avoid that tunnel-effect where the fabric bunches under the stitching.