Rose with Butterfly
Rose with Butterfly is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 68.9 × 91.6 mm with 5,760 stitches in 11 thread colors. Expect roughly 10 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 | 513 · 14 | 641 |
| 2 | 515 · 56 | 407 |
| 3 | 507 · 54 | 1,187 |
| 4 | 058 · 24 | 483 |
| 5 | 030 · 28 | 985 |
| 6 | 800 · 5 | 1,122 |
| 7 | 107 · 51 | 279 |
| 8 | 010 · 18 | 280 |
| 9 | 070 · 4 | 87 |
| 10 | 058 · 24 | 215 |
About This Design
This rose with butterfly design stitches out at 68.9 × 91.6 mm (2.7 × 3.6 in) and uses 11 thread colors across 10 color changes. Total count is 5,760 stitches at a density of about 91.3 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~10 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 10, automatic trims: 5
- 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 91.3 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 68.9 × 91.6 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:
- 513 14
- 515 56
- 507 54
- 058 24
- 030 28
- 800 5
- 107 51
- 010 18
- 070 4
- 058 24
- 107 51
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.