The toucan's bill and one papaya fruit carry two different rounded colour areas under the canopy. The PDF embroidery pattern keeps broad palmate leaves, a yellow throat and a full black tail around them.
Bird and setting
Toucan Under the Papaya Canopy gives the bill a leading role without losing the surrounding foliage. Work the leaf divisions and single fruit separately, then refine the black wing tiers and two blue-grey perch grips.
Is there more than one papaya fruit in the design?
One fruit hangs beneath the canopy. The bill holds several separate colour fields, while the fruit remains a single rounded form alongside the broad leaves and trunk.
Placing the full design
Artwork canvas: 232 x 300 mm, portrait, including the open background areas. Print the separate A3 transfer at Actual Size / 100% and check the 50 mm control bar. Guide previews are reduced. These are canvas dimensions, not a finished hoop, cushion or bag size. The Stitch Guide itself uses US Letter pages.
Feathers, contours and small details
The guide maps 12 working regions with local stitch direction, strand count and DMC colour recipes. Use the region key and recommended sequence to follow the overlaps and changes in shading. Mapped techniques include divided leaf long-and-short, fine split and short straight, turning long-and-short.
PDFs and supporting files
The package contains the 16-page Stitch Guide PDF, a full-size A3 transfer PDF, SVG linework, white and transparent 600 dpi linework PNGs, a colour reference JPG, the thread-and-region CSV, READ_ME instructions and the Hand Embroidery Stitch Sampler, Essential Needlework Handbook PDF.
Materials to prepare
Suggested fabric: deep burgundy linen. The palette proposes 22 DMC shades for stranded cotton. Supply your own needles, hoop or frame and a transfer method suitable for the cloth. Test the transfer and physical thread colours on a small swatch first.
Download format and licence
Digital files only. No fabric, thread, tools or finished embroidery is supplied. Colour references and lifestyle mockups show design and presentation ideas. For personal, non-commercial use. Do not share, redistribute or resell the digital files.
