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Details
- Size
- 65 × 70 mm
- Stitches
- 5,310
- Colours
- 6
- Stitching time
- ≈ 13 min (700 stitches/min)
- Recommended hoop
- 10 × 10 cm
- Formats
- PES · JEF · VP3 · DST · EXP · HUS
- Category
- Shapes and frames
Threads to prepare
- Salmon #e56452
- Brown #663e27
- Cream #f8e5cd
- Grey #838876
- White #fefdfd
- Black #140a07
About this design
The Floral Arabesque Border shows a brown stem running diagonally, punctuated by curling scrolls. Three stylised flowers in salmon and cream open along it, with grey-green leaves and small red berries. The lines are fine and the mood close to painted folk ornament, with a soft six-colour palette.
This light branch sits well in the corner of a tea towel, on the flap of a pouch or at the edge of a cushion, and repeats easily along a towel hem. On cotton or pale linen, a tear-away stabiliser is enough; choose an ecru or soft grey background, which lifts the salmon and keeps the machine embroidery gentle.
How to stitch it
- Prepare 6 threads: salmon, brown, cream, grey, white, black. The names give the closest shade; pick the one you like in your thread brand.
- Hoop the fabric in a 10 × 10 cm hoop with a stabiliser: tear-away for woven fabric (cotton, linen, canvas), cut-away for stretchy fabric (T-shirt, sweatshirt, bodysuit).
- Stitch the colours in this order: salmon → brown → cream → grey → brown → cream → grey → salmon → white → black. The machine stops at each thread change (9 changes, 39 trims).
- Allow about 13 minutes at 700 stitches per minute, 5,310 stitches in all.
- For another size, open the design in the studio rather than enlarging it on the machine: the stitches are recalculated and the density stays right.
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Updated 2026-10-17.