DMC Flower Love - PAT1464S - Downloadable PDF

DMC Flower Love Embroidery Pattern (PAT1464S) – Free Downloadable PDF

DMC Flower Love (Fleurs d'Amour) is a beautiful, advanced-level hand embroidery pattern available as a free downloadable PDF from the DMC library. This stunning design celebrates botanical artistry through a richly detailed floral composition, bringing together a vibrant palette of colours and a diverse range of classic embroidery stitches. Whether you are looking to expand your embroidery skills or create a show-stopping decorative piece, this pattern offers both a technical challenge and a deeply rewarding creative experience.

What Is Being Made

The Flower Love pattern is a decorative floral embroidery design featuring multiple blooms, petals, and botanical elements arranged in an intricate composition. The finished piece is intended as a standalone embroidered artwork, ideal for framing, displaying in a hoop, or incorporating into a textile project. The design is labelled in both English and French, reflecting DMC's international heritage and the classic French tradition of fine needlework.

Techniques and Stitches Used

This is an advanced embroidery project that draws on a wide variety of hand embroidery techniques. Stitchers will need confidence with multiple stitch types, as the pattern uses a coded lettering system (A through F) to assign specific stitches to different areas of the design. The stitches featured in this pattern include:

• Satin Stitch (Passé Plat) – Used to fill solid areas of petals and leaves with smooth, closely worked parallel stitches that create a lustrous, polished surface. Satin stitch requires careful tension and consistent stitch length to achieve a neat, professional finish.
• Backstitch (Point Arrière) – A versatile outline and detail stitch worked by inserting the needle back into the end of the previous stitch, creating a solid, continuous line. It is commonly used for defining edges, stems, and fine detail within floral embroidery.
• Straight Stitch (Point Lancé) – Individual stitches placed at varying angles to suggest texture, small petals, or decorative accents. Straight stitch is one of the most fundamental embroidery techniques and adds spontaneous, natural-looking detail.
• French Knot (Point de Nœud) – A classic raised stitch created by wrapping the thread around the needle before inserting it back into the fabric. French knots are widely used in floral embroidery to represent flower centres, stamens, and textural dot details. They require practice to achieve consistent, rounded results.
• Running Stitch (Point d'Avant) – A simple, rhythmic stitch worked by passing the needle in and out of the fabric at regular intervals. In this design it contributes delicate linear detail and decorative accents throughout the composition.

The combination of these five distinct stitch types means that Flower Love provides an excellent opportunity to practise and refine a broad range of hand embroidery skills within a single cohesive project. The colour guide and technical chart included in the PDF clearly indicate which stitch code applies to each section of the design, making it straightforward to follow once you are familiar with the stitches themselves.

Colour Palette

The pattern uses ten colours of DMC Mouliné Spécial Art 117 stranded cotton embroidery thread, with one skein of each colour required. The specific DMC thread codes used in this design are:

• DMC 3705 – a bright, warm red-coral
• DMC 550 – a deep, rich violet
• DMC 742 – a warm, golden yellow
• DMC 505 – a fresh grass green
• DMC 319 – a deep forest green
• DMC 335 – a vivid rose pink
• DMC 150 – a deep burgundy-red
• DMC 498 – a classic Christmas red
• DMC 3765 – a deep peacock teal
• DMC 3801 – a vivid light red

This bold and diverse palette creates a striking, jewel-toned floral design with strong contrasts