Sunflower and Butterfly Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres a vertical sunflower spray with a monarch butterfly perched on the top bloom, stitched in 10 colours. Two open sunflowers stack one above the other, the lower one looking outward and the upper turned abit to the side. The monarch sits on the upper petal with wings spread, orange and black markings visible. A green stem winds down through both blooms with sage leaves fanning out at staggered points, and theres a single curled tendril near the base that gives the spray real movement.

10 colours total. Two oranges for the bloom heads, sandy yellow at the centres, dark brown on the seed eye, sage paired with a deeper pine green for foliage and stalks, the monarchs orange wings, plus a small black for outline detail and antennae. Density is 705, fairly moderate, runs clean on the smaller hoops without bobbin pull. Honestly Im a bit suprised by how often this design pops up on order, last spring a customer sewed a batch of these on her market apron pockets and they sold out by easter.

The orientation is tall and narrow, the spray sits at roughly 3.5 inches wide at its broadest while the height runs longer down the stem, so it suits sleeve panels, pocket placements, narrow tea towel borders, and table runner ends. Stitch count goes from 8,814 on the smallest hoop up to 20,666 on the 7.5 inch full hoop. The professional embroidery software digitising uses directional petal fills so each sunflower petal reads as a real real petal and not a flat orange spoon.

Reach for a medium cutaway underneath when stitching onto knits, while tearaway works on canvas or sturdy linen. Try cream linen, sage canvas, white cotton, oatmeal or pale terracotta toweling. Skip jersey at the small size, the fine stem and leaf lines will pucker. Skip deep navy or jet black aswell, the orange and yellow lose punch against very dark cloth. Press gentle off the reverse face using a pressing cloth after digitising to keep the sunflower petals from flattening.

Reach me if a colour swap or a smaller version would suit your project, I do custom resize requests within a day.