Orange Sunflower with Leaves
Orange Sunflower with Leaves is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 54.4 × 47.5 mm with 3,642 stitches in 7 thread colors. Expect roughly 6 minutes of stitch-out time on a home machine. Download it below in PES format, ready to transfer to your machine.
Pattern Details
- Craft
- Machine Embroidery
- Colors
- 7
- Stitches
- 3,642
- Design Size
- 54.4 × 47.5 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~6 min
- Color Changes
- 6
- Trims
- 6
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Download Files
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Stitching Color Sequence
Thread order as programmed in the file — follow along at your machine.
| # | Thread | Stitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 · Lime Green | 630 |
| 2 | 54 · Emerald Green | 488 |
| 3 | 12 · Orange | 710 |
| 4 | 28 · Vermilion | 554 |
| 5 | 24 · Dark Brown | 330 |
| 6 | 11 · Deep Gold | 529 |
| 7 | 13 · Yellow | 375 |
About This Design
This sunflower design stitches out at 54.4 × 47.5 mm (2.1 × 1.9 in) and uses 7 thread colors across 6 color changes. Total count is 3,642 stitches at a density of about 140.9 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~6 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 6, automatic trims: 6
- Follow the color sequence table above — thread numbers refer to the chart programmed in the file; match them to your brand by color.
Fabric & Hooping
At about 140.9 stitches/cm² the fill is moderate: one layer of medium-weight cut-away handles most wovens, while knits want a second layer or a fusible backing. At 54.4 × 47.5 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 7 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 14 Lime Green
- 54 Emerald Green
- 12 Orange
- 28 Vermilion
- 24 Dark Brown
- 11 Deep Gold
- 13 Yellow
Stitching Notes
7 colors across 6 changes makes this a real thread-management job: lay the spools out in sequence order first and keep the color chart to hand. Being a PES file, the thread assignments come embedded, so most machines will display the color list for you.
What to Make With It
Motifs like this scatter well — single placements on pockets and yokes, or repeated across a quilt block, a set of napkins or a child's blanket. It reads the same at any orientation, so placement is forgiving.
