Yellow Purple Fern Frill
Yellow Purple Fern Frill is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 58.2 × 44.3 mm with 3,318 stitches in 8 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
- 8
- Stitches
- 3,318
- Design Size
- 58.2 × 44.3 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~6 min
- Color Changes
- 7
- Trims
- 7
- 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 | 973 |
| 2 | 55 · Purple | 801 |
| 3 | 42 · Flesh Pink | 413 |
| 4 | 43 · Pink | 165 |
| 5 | 57 · Flesh Pink | 181 |
| 6 | 43 · Pink | 158 |
| 7 | 9 · Lilac | 271 |
| 8 | 42 · Flesh Pink | 326 |
About This Design
This fern frond design stitches out at 58.2 × 44.3 mm (2.3 × 1.7 in) and uses 8 thread colors across 7 color changes. Total count is 3,318 stitches at a density of about 128.7 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~6 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 7, automatic trims: 7
- 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 128.7 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 58.2 × 44.3 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 8 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 61 Fresh Green
- 55 Purple
- 42 Flesh Pink
- 43 Pink
- 57 Flesh Pink
- 43 Pink
- 9 Lilac
- 42 Flesh Pink
Stitching Notes
8 colors across 7 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.
