White Heart Ornamental Lace
White Heart Ornamental Lace is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 70.7 × 71.3 mm with 3,403 stitches in 10 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
- 10
- Stitches
- 3,403
- Design Size
- 70.7 × 71.3 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~6 min
- Color Changes
- 9
- Trims
- 5
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Download Files
Free for personal stitching. Need another format (DST, JEF, EXP…)? More formats are on the way. Design License →
Stitching Color Sequence
Thread order as programmed in the file — follow along at your machine.
| # | Thread | Stitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 61 · Fresh Green | 301 |
| 2 | 4 · Cornflower Blue | 331 |
| 3 | 55 · Purple | 261 |
| 4 | 42 · Flesh Pink | 486 |
| 5 | 43 · Pink | 343 |
| 6 | 57 · Flesh Pink | 133 |
| 7 | 43 · Pink | 141 |
| 8 | 9 · Lilac | 115 |
| 9 | 57 · Flesh Pink | 99 |
| 10 | 29 · White | 1,163 |
About This Design
This heart lace motif design stitches out at 70.7 × 71.3 mm (2.8 × 2.8 in) and uses 10 thread colors across 9 color changes. Total count is 3,403 stitches at a density of about 67.5 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~6 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 9, 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 67.5 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 70.7 × 71.3 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 10 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 61 Fresh Green
- 4 Cornflower Blue
- 55 Purple
- 42 Flesh Pink
- 43 Pink
- 57 Flesh Pink
- 43 Pink
- 9 Lilac
- 57 Flesh Pink
- 29 White
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
A border repeats well along table runners, pillowcase edges, curtain hems and quilt sashing. Stitch one repeat on scrap and measure it, then work out how many repeats your piece needs before you hoop the real fabric.
