Anchor Flower Scarf - 0022500-00001-14 - Downloadable PDF

Anchor Flower Scarf Embroidery Pattern by Anne Mende – Free Downloadable PDF

The Anchor Flower Scarf is a beautiful freestyle embroidery design created by Anne Mende and published by Anchor in association with Quail Publishing Limited. This free downloadable PDF pattern (Design No. 0022500-00001-15) guides embroiderers through creating a richly textured floral motif that is first worked onto felt and then attached to a scarf or shawl, transforming a simple accessory into a stunning handcrafted statement piece.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a flower-embroidered scarf embellishment. The floral design — featuring bold blooms, delicate lazy daisy flowers, and lush foliage — is embroidered onto a piece of felt, which is subsequently sewn onto a scarf or shawl of your choice. This approach makes the technique accessible and adaptable, as the embroidered felt panel can be applied to a wide variety of scarves and shawls in different fabrics and colours.

Design Details and Composition

The design centres on a rich botanical arrangement that includes:

• Two large statement flowers worked from the centre outwards using satin stitch
• Small white lazy daisy flowers scattered throughout the composition
• Dark green foliage worked in backstitch, with leaves built up using three stitches layered over one another to create a thick, dimensional texture
• Additional leaves added after the flowers are complete, allowing the embroiderer to fill space evenly and balance the overall composition

Following the printed chart included in the PDF is essential for correct colour placement and stitch selection across the design.

Techniques and Stitches Used

This pattern is rated intermediate in difficulty, making it well suited to embroiderers who are comfortable with basic stitches and ready to explore more textural and decorative techniques. The following stitches are used throughout the design:

• Backstitch – used for the dark green foliage outlines, creating clean, defined lines that anchor the botanical elements
• Satin stitch – used to fill the circular centres of the two large flowers, producing a smooth, solid surface with a subtle sheen
• Lazy daisy stitch (also known as detached chain stitch) – used to create the small white flowers, each petal formed as an individual looped stitch anchored at its tip
• Layered straight stitches – three stitches worked over one another on the leaves to build up a thick, raised, tactile texture that adds dimension to the foliage

Freestyle embroidery is the overarching technique employed throughout this pattern. Unlike counted thread embroidery, freestyle embroidery is worked directly onto the fabric surface without counting threads, giving the embroiderer creative flexibility in following the design. The combination of stitches used here allows for both fine linear detail and bold filled areas, resulting in a design with excellent visual contrast and depth.

Materials Required

The pattern calls for Anchor Tapisserie Wool (Art. No. 4238000), available in 10 m skeins. This is a high-quality tapestry wool well known for its smooth, even twist and excellent coverage on fabric. A total of eight colours are specified, each requiring one skein:

• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8118
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8000
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8884
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8966
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8392
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8394
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #8012
• Anchor Tapisserie Wool #9112

Throughout the entire project, one strand of tapestry wool