13 Designs to embroider butterflies

Drawings to embroider butterflies and flowers

Do you want to embroider beautiful and colorful butterflies? Today I bring you some interesting ideas that you can use for inspiration. Try to create your realistic embroideries, with butterflies and flowers as the main motifs.

In the fantastic art of embroidery, the needles work like brushes and the threads work like ink. With a little dedication and some artistry in the mix, you can create amazing embroideries.

So that you can embroider with a realistic look, you can use the long and short stitch technique, widely used in contemporary embroidery pattern work. but there is other suitable embroidery stitches: the split back stitch, the straight stitch, the daisy stitch and the satin stitch.

If you don't feel comfortable embroidering complicated designs or are still a beginner, insects are a great starting point for you to gain more experience and knowledge. The symmetrical nature of butterfly embroidery makes these embroidery processes very meditative and relaxing moments for embroiderers.

You can use these free resources however you see fit. If you like an image, you can print it, enlarge it, cut it out and trace it on the fabric where you want to embroider.

butterfly designs

With this set of embroidery designs that I show you below, you will be able to create your own embroideries to your liking, using the size of the design that best suits the fabric you want to embroider and selecting the thread colors that best fit your style and personal taste.

See how a finished work looks like a butterfly embroidered with colorful flowers.

After finishing your butterfly and flower embroidery project, you can use it to decorate your home, hang it on a wall or alternatively give it as a gift to your friends and family, or simply share it on social media, with the whole world.