Red Floral Vine with Swirls
Red Floral Vine with Swirls is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 80.3 × 77.2 mm with 4,061 stitches in 13 thread colors. Expect roughly 7 minutes of stitch-out time on a home machine. Download it below in PES format, ready to transfer to your machine.
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Stitching Color Sequence
Thread order as programmed in the file — follow along at your machine.
| # | Thread | Stitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 · Blue | 107 |
| 2 | 32 · Sky Blue | 158 |
| 3 | 54 · Emerald Green | 699 |
| 4 | 14 · Lime Green | 953 |
| 5 | 32 · Sky Blue | 90 |
| 6 | 52 · Tangerine | 142 |
| 7 | 5 · Red | 226 |
| 8 | 54 · Emerald Green | 81 |
| 9 | 28 · Vermilion | 146 |
| 10 | 2 · Blue | 132 |
About This Design
This ornamental vine design stitches out at 80.3 × 77.2 mm (3.2 × 3.0 in) and uses 13 thread colors across 12 color changes. Total count is 4,061 stitches at a density of about 65.5 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~7 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 12
- 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 65.5 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 80.3 × 77.2 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 13 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 2 Blue
- 32 Sky Blue
- 54 Emerald Green
- 14 Lime Green
- 32 Sky Blue
- 52 Tangerine
- 5 Red
- 54 Emerald Green
- 28 Vermilion
- 2 Blue
- 13 Yellow
- 52 Tangerine
…plus 1 more in the full color sequence above.
Stitching Notes
13 colors across 12 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.