DMC Summer Flowers - PAT1353S - Downloadable PDF

DMC Summer Flowers Embroidery Pattern (PAT1353S) – Free Downloadable PDF

The DMC Summer Flowers pattern (Fleurs d'Été) is a beautifully detailed embroidery design released as part of the DMC Library collection. Available as a free downloadable PDF, this pattern is aimed at advanced embroiderers who are comfortable working with multiple decorative hand-embroidery stitches on a single project. The finished design measures approximately 15 cm x 14 cm, making it an elegant piece suitable for framing, hoop art, or incorporation into textile projects.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a floral embroidery composition featuring summer flowers rendered in rich, layered thread work. The design uses a carefully curated palette of six colours to bring the blooms, stems, and foliage to life with texture and dimension. The combination of stitches gives the finished piece a lush, tactile quality, with raised floral centres contrasting against smooth satin-stitched petals and neatly outlined stems.

Techniques and Stitches Used

The pattern employs four distinct embroidery stitches, each assigned a code letter in the technical chart to guide placement across the design:

• Turkey Rug Stitch (Code A) – A looped or cut pile stitch that creates a raised, textured surface, often used to simulate the fluffy centres of flowers or dense floral masses. This technique involves working rows of looped stitches that can be left as loops or trimmed to create a velvet-like pile effect.
• Satin Stitch (Code B) – Smooth, closely packed parallel straight stitches that fill a shape completely, producing a flat, lustrous surface ideal for rendering petals and leaves with clean, polished coverage.
• Stem Stitch (Code C) – A classic outline and line stitch worked in a slightly overlapping manner to create a twisted rope-like effect, perfectly suited to depicting flower stems, tendrils, and curved outlines.
• French Knot (Code D) – A small, rounded raised knot formed by wrapping the thread around the needle before inserting it back into the fabric, used here to add delicate dotted detail and textural accents throughout the floral design.

The interplay of these four stitches — from the dimensional pile of the Turkey Rug Stitch to the refined smoothness of Satin Stitch — is what places this pattern firmly in the advanced difficulty category, requiring good stitch tension control and familiarity with multi-technique embroidery.

Colour Palette

The design uses six colours of DMC Mouliné Spécial Art 117 stranded cotton embroidery thread, with one skein of each colour required for the stated design size. The specific thread codes used are:

• DMC 742 – a warm yellow tone
• DMC 947 – a vivid orange
• DMC 967 – a soft peachy-apricot
• DMC 775 – a pale baby blue
• DMC 319 – a deep forest green
• DMC 993 – a soft aqua-green

All stitching is worked using 4 strands of the DMC Mouliné Spécial Art 117 thread throughout the entire design, giving the embroidery a bold, well-covered appearance appropriate to the scale and stitch types involved.

Materials Required

• Thread: DMC Mouliné Spécial Art 117 stranded cotton in the six colours listed above (one skein each)
• Needle: Embroidery needle No. 12
• Fabric: The pattern specifies a suitable embroidery fabric (toile), with the design transferred using either a magic sheet or a transfer pen to accurately position the motif before stitching begins

Pattern Format and Accessibility

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