Yellow Purple Poppy Flowers
Yellow Purple Poppy Flowers is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 35.7 × 169.0 mm with 8,008 stitches in 9 thread colors. Expect roughly 13 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
- 9
- Stitches
- 8,008
- Design Size
- 35.7 × 169 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 5" × 7" (130 × 180 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~13 min
- Color Changes
- 8
- Trims
- 14
- 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 | 18 · Cream Brown | 2,124 |
| 2 | 57 · Flesh Pink | 369 |
| 3 | 32 · Sky Blue | 2,687 |
| 4 | 61 · Fresh Green | 1,509 |
| 5 | 4 · Cornflower Blue | 599 |
| 6 | 18 · Cream Brown | 72 |
| 7 | 55 · Purple | 309 |
| 8 | 9 · Lilac | 138 |
| 9 | 57 · Flesh Pink | 155 |
About This Design
This poppy spray design stitches out at 35.7 × 169.0 mm (1.4 × 6.7 in) and uses 9 thread colors across 8 color changes. Total count is 8,008 stitches at a density of about 132.7 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~13 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 8, automatic trims: 14
- 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 132.7 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 35.7 × 169.0 mm plan on 6×10 in or larger, and mark your centre lines before hooping.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 9 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 18 Cream Brown
- 57 Flesh Pink
- 32 Sky Blue
- 61 Fresh Green
- 4 Cornflower Blue
- 18 Cream Brown
- 55 Purple
- 9 Lilac
- 57 Flesh Pink
Stitching Notes
9 colors across 8 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.
