Pink Yellow Iris with Vine
Pink Yellow Iris with Vine is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 20.4 × 100.0 mm with 6,990 stitches in 11 thread colors. Expect roughly 12 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
- 11
- Stitches
- 6,990
- Design Size
- 20.4 × 100 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~12 min
- Color Changes
- 10
- Trims
- 0
- 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 | 1,894 |
| 2 | 42 · Flesh Pink | 1,301 |
| 3 | 1 · Prussian Blue | 1,066 |
| 4 | 43 · Pink | 422 |
| 5 | 29 · White | 347 |
| 6 | 43 · Pink | 226 |
| 7 | 29 · White | 356 |
| 8 | 43 · Pink | 537 |
| 9 | 46 · Wisteria Violet | 391 |
| 10 | 42 · Flesh Pink | 194 |
About This Design
This iris vine design stitches out at 20.4 × 100.0 mm (0.8 × 3.9 in) and uses 11 thread colors across 10 color changes. Total count is 6,990 stitches at a density of about 342.6 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~12 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 10
- 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 342.6 stitches/cm² this is a very heavy fill, near the limit of what a domestic machine handles comfortably. Use two layers of firm cut-away, drop to roughly 400 spm, and expect a stiff finished patch — keep it off garments that need to drape. At 20.4 × 100.0 mm reach for a 5×7 in hoop.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 11 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 61 Fresh Green
- 42 Flesh Pink
- 1 Prussian Blue
- 43 Pink
- 29 White
- 43 Pink
- 29 White
- 43 Pink
- 46 Wisteria Violet
- 42 Flesh Pink
- 43 Pink
Stitching Notes
11 colors across 10 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.
