Romantic Butterfly Love Shape Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Same butterfly heart arrangement as the single-colour version but this one runs in 3 colours, purple, red, and sky-blue, so the individual butterflies pop out of the shape rather than blending into a single mass. Its the version Id pick for valentine gifting or for something meant to hang on a wall where you want the colour to do the talking. And honestly its just a nicer gift than another candle.

The layout is the same cluster-of-butterflies-forming-a-heart composition, but with the colour changes you get a new layer of visual interest. Larger purple silhouettes anchor the middle and lower curve of the heart. Red butterflies scatter across the full shape. The smaller blue ones fill the gaps and finish the outer edges. A few of them have thin curling antennae in satin linework which you can catch if you look closely. Theres no heavy outline separating the butterflies so at a distance the whole thing reads as a soft colourful heart, but up close you can pick out individual wings and directions. Three colour changes, density 489 stitches per square centimetre.

Hoop a poly cutaway to keep things stable through the 3 colour stops. Back with no-show cutaway on light fabrics like white or blush cotton so the stabiliser doesnt show through. Pop a water-soluble topping over velvet or textured surfaces to stop the fill stitches sinking into the pile. Largest at 6.15 inches is 21,068 stitches. Smallest at 3.52 inches is 10,461 stitches. A customer last february ran this in pink, burgundy and lilac threads on white linen and the colourway looked completely different but still worked brilliantly. Substituting thread colours is straightforward on a 3-colour design like this.