Vibrant Daisy Flower Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This daisy is not the soft watercolour kind. The petals are a strong burnt orange with directional satin stitching running from the base to the tip of each one, so ya get that lovely dimensional look where the light catches differently on each petal depending on the angle. A ring of deep purple sits around the centre disc and inside that a round teal fill gives it kind of a psychedelic botanical poster energy from the 60s and 70s.

Five colours in total: burnt orange for the petals, deep navy for the outlining and shadow work, teal and cyan for the leaf cluster at the base, and that deep purple collar sitting right at the flower core. Four colour changes to manage, 5 stops. The density is high at 1,183, genuinely one of the denser designs Ive digitised in a while, so this one needs proper stabilising. Use a firm cutaway underneath and dont rush the machine speed on the large petal sections. The biggest size goes to peak 7.5 tall and hits 46,130 stitches, which is alot of thread on the bobbin aswell.

I put this together last spring after a garden centre owner messaged asking for something that'd look good on a linen apron without being cutesy. She wanted botanical but bold, and she didnt want pastels. This is what I came up with. She stitched it on a black canvas apron in the exact colourway from the file and it looked genuinely like a piece of textile art. So I kept the colours as-is, I wasnt gonna water it down.

Best results on black, charcoal, or deep navy fabric because the orange pops hard against dark grounds. Avoid pale grey or white here, the navy outlines disappear and you lose the contrast that makes the whole thing work. Hoop with a cutaway mesh stabiliser, run at 60-70 percent machine speed on the dense petal fills to keep the satin columns from pulling. The teal leaf base has lighter density so that section stitches quickly.