Peony Flowers

About This Design

This peony design stitches out at 415.1 × 399.9 mm (16.3 × 15.7 in) and uses 9 thread colors across 9 color changes. Total count is 66,010 stitches at a density of about 39.8 stitches/cm².

At The Machine

• Estimated stitch-out time: ~110 minutes at 600 spm
• Color changes: 9, automatic trims: 2404
• 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 39.8 stitches/cm² this is an open, low-density fill, so it sits happily on quilting cotton, linen or lightweight shirting with a single layer of tear-away behind it. At 415.1 × 399.9 mm this needs a large-format hoop, or splitting across several hoopings with alignment marks — check it against your machine's maximum field first.

Thread Colors in This Design

DST files store stitch data but no thread information, so the colors below are our suggested DMC match. Swap in whatever you have in a similar shade:

• 317 Pewter Gray
• 721 Medium Orange Spice
• 3013 Light Khaki Green
• 550 Very Dark Violet
• 310 Black
• 741 Medium Tangerine
• 958 Dark Sea Green
• 3607 Light Plum
• 321 Red

Stitching Notes

9 colors across 9 changes makes this a real thread-management job: lay the spools out in sequence order first and keep the color chart to hand. DST stores stitch data only, which is why the color list is a suggestion rather than the digitizer's original choice.

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.