Pink Peony with Blue Butterfly
Pink Peony with Blue Butterfly is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 60.4 × 73.5 mm with 5,317 stitches in 12 thread colors. Expect roughly 9 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
- 12
- Stitches
- 5,317
- Design Size
- 60.4 × 73.5 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~9 min
- Color Changes
- 11
- Trims
- 9
- 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 | 61 · Fresh Green | 1,515 |
| 2 | 42 · Flesh Pink | 1,188 |
| 3 | 47 · Beige | 206 |
| 4 | 9 · Lilac | 263 |
| 5 | 57 · Flesh Pink | 155 |
| 6 | 43 · Pink | 222 |
| 7 | 9 · Lilac | 337 |
| 8 | 43 · Pink | 454 |
| 9 | 9 · Lilac | 93 |
| 10 | 4 · Cornflower Blue | 380 |
About This Design
This butterfly peony design stitches out at 60.4 × 73.5 mm (2.4 × 2.9 in) and uses 12 thread colors across 11 color changes. Total count is 5,317 stitches at a density of about 119.8 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~9 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 11, automatic trims: 9
- 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 119.8 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 60.4 × 73.5 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 12 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 61 Fresh Green
- 42 Flesh Pink
- 47 Beige
- 9 Lilac
- 57 Flesh Pink
- 43 Pink
- 9 Lilac
- 43 Pink
- 9 Lilac
- 4 Cornflower Blue
- 18 Cream Brown
- 55 Purple
Stitching Notes
12 colors across 11 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.
