Tiger Butterfly Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The shape reads butterfly at first. Then you clock the faces. Each wing is a snarling tiger head staring straight out, two of them mirrored left and right with the narrow body strip running down the centre like a spine. Mouths are open, canines showing, ears pinned back. its the type of design where a mate across the room sees a butterfly and then walks closer and goes wait a second.

Orange satin covers the main wing face areas and the body band. Black stripes run across each wing in the same pattern youd expect on a real tiger coat, thick at the brow, tapering toward the edges. White satin fills the cheek patches and the inner brow ridge above each eye so the contrast reads at small sizes too. Amber-gold eyes sit tight above the nose pad. The outer wing fringe is black with a jagged, claw-raked silhouette rather than the smooth scalloped edge on a regular butterfly shape, which is what sells the wild animal read from a distance.

Only 4 colours, which is lean for how much is happening visually. Stitch count runs from around 21k at the small end up to sixty thousand on the large, so factor in time for the bigger sizes. Density is 1081 stitches per square inch. Use a medium-to-heavy cutaway stabiliser and slow your machine speed on the dense cheek and brow fills. Five sizes, squarish proportions, widest is 7.45 inches across so it sits well on a jacket back. A customer last winter stitched the large on a black varsity back and said the orange-on-black stopped traffic. Dont underestimate the density on the big size either, keep the pace down and swap in a fresh needle before you start. Drop the shop a note if the black fringe pulls or the orange lifts on the underside and Ill fix the underlay.