• The Butterfly Garden two-volume digital book with both original covers, 80 studies and 160 drawing and embroidery illustrations.
  • The Butterfly Garden, Volume I original front cover.
  • The Butterfly Garden, Volume II original front cover.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-01, Peacock in the Nettle Break. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-01, Peacock in the Nettle Break. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-11, Meadow Brown in the Bent Grass Fan. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-11, Meadow Brown in the Bent Grass Fan. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-21, Chalk Hill Blue above the Limestone Cleft. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-21, Chalk Hill Blue above the Limestone Cleft. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-31, Purple Emperor at the Oak Sap Ladder. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-31, Purple Emperor at the Oak Sap Ladder. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-41, Large Copper over the Flooded Dock. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-41, Large Copper over the Flooded Dock. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-51, Southern White Admiral at the Stone Aperture. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-51, Southern White Admiral at the Stone Aperture. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-61, Apollo beside the High Sedum Crown. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-61, Apollo beside the High Sedum Crown. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-71, Tiger Swallowtail across the Tulip Tree Window. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-71, Tiger Swallowtail across the Tulip Tree Window. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden digital download details: two PDFs, 203 pages, 80 paired studies, seven articles, US Letter portrait and English text.
  • The Butterfly Garden, Volume I original back cover.
  • The Butterfly Garden, Volume II original back cover.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-24, Dingy Skipper in the Flint Basin. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-24, Dingy Skipper in the Flint Basin. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-49, False Ringlet inside the Sedge Reflection. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-49, False Ringlet inside the Sedge Reflection. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-79, Pearl Crescent among the Turning Asters. Drawing base reference.
  • The Butterfly Garden: BF01-79, Pearl Crescent among the Turning Asters. Embroidered textile visual interpretation.
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The Butterfly Garden | 80 Hand Embroidery Studies, Volumes I & II

The Butterfly Garden | 80 Hand Embroidery Studies, Volumes I & II

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Bring the butterfly garden into your embroidery practice, one wing, leaf and quiet detail at a time.

Follow butterflies through garden borders, meadows, woodland edges, wetlands and mountain habitats. Explore the relationship between a delicate wing and the leaves, flowers, bark, water and stone around it.

A two-volume embroidery reference library

2 English-language PDF volumes • 80 studies • 160 paired illustrations: 80 drawings and 80 embroidery visual references • 7 editorial articles • 8 chapter openings • 2 closing practice texts • 203 pages in total (103 + 100, including covers) • US Letter portrait, 8.5 × 11 inches.

Inside the volumes

Volume I — Garden Light and Woodland Edges

Studies 01–40: Garden Light, Meadow Wings, Chalk and Sun, Woodland Edges.

Volume II — Wet Meadows and Distant Gardens

Studies 41–80: Wet Meadow, Mediterranean Wings, Mountain Wings, North American Gardens.

From careful observation to expressive stitch

Study the A drawings alongside the B embroidery visuals to explore proportion, colour, texture and open ground. Seven editorial articles offer a slower, more considered approach to translating natural details into your own creative work.

Refresh your technique with our essential hand embroidery stitches and explore layering techniques for texture.

Your digital edition

Two full-quality English PDF volumes, formatted in US Letter portrait. Download to a computer or tablet, browse at your own pace and print selected pages for personal practice. Large full-quality files are best downloaded over a stable connection.

Before you begin

An artistic reference collection for hand embroidery, observation and personal creative practice. Each A drawing is paired with a B embroidery-style illustration. The images are AI-generated artistic references, not photographs of completed hand stitching. This is not a machine embroidery file collection or a set of tested, stitch-by-stitch patterns; numbered thread charts and full-size transfer templates are not included.

Digital product only. No printed book, fabric, thread, embroidery kit or finished embroidery will be shipped. Personal use only; do not redistribute, share or resell the digital files.

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