Sturt Desert Pea Flowers
Sturt Desert Pea Flowers is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 45.9 × 95.8 mm with 5,194 stitches in 10 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
- 10
- Stitches
- 5,194
- Design Size
- 45.9 × 95.8 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~9 min
- Color Changes
- 9
- Trims
- 1
- 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 | 513 · 14 | 173 |
| 2 | 515 · 56 | 79 |
| 3 | 027 · 61 | 1,344 |
| 4 | 515 · 56 | 686 |
| 5 | 001 · 29 | 96 |
| 6 | 704 · 19 | 114 |
| 7 | 900 · 20 | 351 |
| 8 | 086 · 25 | 1,033 |
| 9 | 030 · 28 | 829 |
| 10 | 800 · 5 | 467 |
About This Design
This desert pea design stitches out at 45.9 × 95.8 mm (1.8 × 3.8 in) and uses 10 thread colors across 9 color changes. Total count is 5,194 stitches at a density of about 118.1 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~9 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 9, automatic trims: 1
- 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 118.1 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 45.9 × 95.8 mm reach for a 5×7 in hoop.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 10 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 513 14
- 515 56
- 027 61
- 515 56
- 001 29
- 704 19
- 900 20
- 086 25
- 030 28
- 800 5
Stitching Notes
10 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. 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.
