Wildflower Garden Outline Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Theres alot going on in this one and thats kinda the whole point. Its a full meadow scene stitched entirely in black outline, no fill anywhere, just the line work doing everything. Daisies with open centres, tall poppies, coneflower heads, allium balls on long stems, lavender spikes, little seed pods and feathery grasses running across the ground level. The whole composition reads as a garden you might walk past in late summer, the kind that looks slightly wild and unmaintained in the best possible way.

Single colour, 0 colour changes, 1 stop. Thats it. Load your black thread, hoop your fabric, and go. The run-stitch approach here is quite light on density, around 416 stitches per square inch, which means it lays flat without stiffening the fabric underneath. I love this for linen especially because the weave texture stays visible through the gaps in the outline stitching and the whole piece looks genuinely hand-made. A customer who ordered it last autumn told me she stitched it along the bottom hem of a linen apron and it looked like something she drew herself, which is exactly the point.

The orientation is wider than tall. At the 3.5-inch height it runs about 2 inches wide. Scale up to the biggest size and youre at 7.5 inches tall by 4.4 wide. Heres the thing about outline designs at the smaller sizes: they can get tight and jumpy if your machine isnt well calibrated. Run a test on spare stabiliser first, and check your jump trim settings. The file has 94 trims in the smallest size which youll want to clip as you go.

Use light to mid-weight woven fabric, white cotton, natural linen, pale grey canvas. Dont hoop anything stretchy. Tear-away stabiliser works fine for woven cotton, switch to cutaway if youre going on a looser linen burlap weave. Ping me if the outline looks gappy and Ill walk you through thread tension.