Fleur-de-Lis Embroidery Design: Scout Badge Circle Machine Embroidery File

The Fleur-de-Lis embroidery design is a classic heraldic fleur-de-lis motif centered within a dashed circle border, with a decorative rope knot element at the base of the circle, all rendered in a single warm rose pink thread. The fleur-de-lis itself is fully filled with smooth directional satin stitches, featuring a tall pointed central petal, two broad curling side petals, and a small oval collar band at the base of the central form. This design stitches out at 2,438 stitches.

What distinguishes this design from other fleur-de-lis or heraldic embroideries in a decorative collection is the combination of three distinct element types within one small composition: the fully filled sculptural fleur-de-lis form, the dashed segmented circle border, and the rope knot at the base. Each of these three elements requires a different stitch approach within the same single-color, compact design. Managing the visual hierarchy between a dense filled motif, a graphic dashed outline, and a textured rope knot, while keeping all three readable at under 2 inches, is the structural challenge that defines this file.

Design Details

The central fleur-de-lis features a tall pointed central petal with a pronounced ridge line rendered by a split in the fill stitch direction at the petal center, creating a subtle V-shaped highlight that suggests a raised central vein. The two side petals curl outward and downward in the characteristic fleur-de-lis form, each broadly filled with smooth satin stitches that follow the petal curvature. A small oval collar or band element sits at the junction where the three petal forms meet the lower stem, rendered as a narrow horizontal oval outline with an open center. The circle border surrounding the motif is rendered as a segmented dashed ring rather than a continuous line, with evenly spaced rectangular dash blocks forming the full circle circumference. At the bottom of the circle, centered below the fleur-de-lis base, a compact rope knot is stitched with interlocking satin fill segments and two short rope ends extending outward from the knot sides, suggesting a tied reef knot. The entire design is monochromatic in warm rose pink, giving it a soft, feminine quality suited to apparel, accessories, and home embroidery.

Size Guide

Formats Included

This design includes 25 file formats compatible with all major embroidery machine brands: PES, PEC (Brother, Baby Lock, Bernina); DST, DSB (Tajima); JEF, SEW (Janome, Elna); VP3, VIP, SHV, HUS (Husqvarna Viking); PCS, PCQ, PCD (Pfaff); XXX (Singer); ART (Bernina software); 000 (Singer/generic); 100 (Toyota); CND (Melco/Conde); CSD (Singer/POEM); DGT (Barudan); DSZ (Tajima older); EMD (Elna); EXP (Melco/Bernina); INF (design info).

Digitizing Quality

The primary digitizing challenge in this design was rendering the rope knot legibly at under 2 inches total design height. The knot occupies a small zone at the bottom of the composition and must convey the over-under interlocking of the rope strands through stitch layering alone, without color contrast to separate the crossing elements. The knot was digitized with the lower-passing strand stitching first and the upper-passing strand stitching over it, so the crossing reads as a physical overlap rather than two flat shapes merging into a single mass.

The dashed circle border required consistent dash spacing and uniform dash block dimensions across the full 360-degree circumference. Because the dashes are short rectangular fill segments placed at intervals along the circle path, any variation in block size or gap width is immediately visible when the border is viewed as a whole. Each dash block was digitized from the same base path geometry, scaled consistently, and positioned with equal angular spacing to ensure the dashed ring reads as a regular, intentional pattern rather than an irregular sequence of marks.

The central petal ridge line, created by splitting the fill stitch direction at the petal center axis, required precise path alignment so the two fill zones meet cleanly at the ridge without a visible gap or thread buildup along the join line. The ridge was digitized as a shared edge between two fill zones with opposing stitch angles, producing the subtle highlight effect through the contrast in light reflection between the two fill directions rather than through a separate stitch element.

License

This design is licensed for commercial use on finished physical goods. You may sell items you embroider using this file, including garments, accessories, home goods, and gifts. The digital files themselves may not be resold, redistributed, shared, or included in any digital product collection. Each purchase covers one user and one business.

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