Paintbox Crafts Fall Bloom Embroidery Pattern - Downloadable PDF

Paintbox Crafts Fall Bloom Embroidery Pattern by Hope & Heart

The Fall Bloom Embroidery Pattern from Paintbox Crafts, designed by Hope & Heart, is a free downloadable PDF featuring an autumnal floral embroidery design. Stitched onto Aida cloth and displayed in a classic 6in/15cm embroidery hoop, this project captures the warm, rich tones of the fall season through a carefully curated palette of eight thread colors. The pattern is listed as intermediate difficulty, making it a rewarding project for those who have a basic familiarity with hand embroidery and are ready to explore a broader range of decorative stitches.

About the Design

The Fall Bloom design is a single autumnal composition that brings together botanical elements — likely foliage, flowers, and berries — rendered in a warm harvest color palette. The finished piece is intended to be displayed within the embroidery hoop itself, and an optional 6¾in/17cm x 6¾in/17cm piece of felt can be used to back the finished work neatly. The pattern is formatted for A4 paper, with a note to print at 100% scale if using US letter-sized paper to ensure the design transfers accurately.

Stitches Used

This pattern is an excellent opportunity to build a well-rounded embroidery skill set. The following stitches are featured throughout the design:

• Back Stitch — a versatile outline stitch that creates clean, continuous lines, ideal for defining the edges of leaves, stems, and petals.
• French Knots — small, textured knots worked by wrapping thread around the needle before inserting it back into the fabric, commonly used to add berries, flower centers, or decorative dotted details.
• Long and Short Stitch — an advanced filling technique where alternating long and short straight stitches are layered to create smooth color gradients and realistic shading across larger areas such as petals or leaves.
• Satin Stitch — a smooth, densely packed filling stitch worked in parallel lines to create a polished, solid coverage of a shape, giving a silky finish to floral and leaf elements.
• Split Stitch — a neat outline or filling stitch where each new stitch splits the thread of the previous one, producing a fine, rope-like line that is excellent for detailed outlines and lettering.

Materials Required

The pattern calls for Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton thread, which is exclusively available at lovecrafts.com. Eight individual skeins are required, each in a distinct autumnal shade:

• Thyme 005 — a deep, muted green
• Ivy 027 — a rich, darker green tone
• Butternut Squash 030 — a warm golden orange
• Chocolate Frosting 056 — a deep, earthy brown
• Grape 145 — a deep purple
• Raspberry Flan 170 — a warm berry pink
• Oat Milk 174 — a soft, creamy neutral
• Orange Pip 178 — a vivid, punchy orange

Together, these shades create the characteristic warm, earthy tones of an autumn palette. Paintbox Crafts Stranded Cotton is a six-strand divisible thread, meaning stitchers can separate the strands to adjust the weight and texture of each stitch as needed — a common technique in embroidery to achieve finer detail or bolder coverage.

Additional Tools and Supplies

• 6in/15cm embroidery hoop — to hold the fabric taut while stitching and to frame the finished piece for display
• Size 5 embroidery needle — suitable for working with stranded cotton on Aida cloth
• Aida cloth — an evenweave fabric with a regular grid of holes, commonly used in cross stitch and embroidery projects