Wild Garden Floral Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Its a daisy that looks like it grew itself. One long teal stem comes up from a messy clump of soil at the bottom, little pebbles and dirt texture rendered in a warm taupe brown. The leaves are dark green with proper serrated edges, they fan out at the base and look genuinely wild, not the smooth-edged decorative leaf you get in most floral designs. Up top the flower is white petals radiating out from an orange-yellow centre. Clean, strong, not cute.

Eight colours even though it reads simple. The soil section alone uses 3 different shades, brown, teal for the stem shadow, and mallard teal running up the stem gives it a botanical specimen feel. my professional tool kept the petal fill as open satin so the petals stay airy rather than stiff. That matters on the smaller sizes, at 3.5 inches a packed fill would crush the petal detail but open satin holds up fine.

I made this one for people who dont want florals that look like a cake decoration. More the kind of flower you press between book pages and find years later. My friend uses the 5-inch run on her hand-dyed linen pouches and it always sells first at her craft stalls. And every january she reorders more sizes because her customers keep asking. Nine sizes, 3.5 up to 7.5 in width, stitch counts from about 10k to 26k. Low density overall so it sews fast and plays nicely on most fabrics.

Pair heavyweight cutaway woven cotton or linen. Stitch on cream, oatmeal or sage green for best results, those warm neutrals let the white bloom pop. Pop it on dark forest green or navy if ya want a moodier result where only the orange centre and teal stem come through. Avoid bright colours behind it because the pale petals cant compete with a busy background. Skip stretchy jersey on any size, theres no fill mass to hold the structure on knit.