Pocket with laurel and heart hand embroidery pattern

Easy · 6 colors · 4 kinds of stitch

Pocket with laurel and heart: preview of the stitched design

A pocket with a pointed foot carries a heart inside a laurel. The pocket edge and the pocket hem, a line across near the top, are navy stem stitch, and the pocket stitching is a line of navy back stitch inside the edge. Two dark green stem stitch stems curve up from a blossom at the foot, with satin stitch leaves, each half dark green and half light green. The blossom has five pink satin stitch blossom petals around a gold French knot blossom center. Between the stems is a heart outline in red stem stitch with a small red satin stitch heart inside it.

Size and details

Easy. In a hoop of 6 inches or less: stem stitch, back stitch and French knots, with some short satin stitches; in a larger hoop the widest satin stitches are long.

6 colors of floss and 4 kinds of stitch:

The stitched size and the widest satin stitch, by hoop
Hoop	Inches	Centimeters	Satin stitch up to
3 in (8 cm)	1.3 × 1.4 in	3.3 × 3.6 cm	1/8 in (3 mm)
4 in (10 cm)	1.9 × 2.1 in	4.8 × 5.3 cm	3/16 in (5 mm)
5 in (13 cm)	2.5 × 2.8 in	6.4 × 7.1 cm	1/4 in (6 mm)
6 in (15 cm)	3.2 × 3.5 in	8.1 × 8.9 cm	1/4 in (6 mm)
8 in (20 cm)	4.4 × 4.9 in	11.2 × 12.4 cm	3/8 in (10 mm)

In a 3 inch hoop the French knot is drawn smaller than about 2 mm (a little over 1/16 in). Use one strand of floss for it there, or choose a larger hoop.

The pattern is drawn inside a circle about half an inch (1.3 cm) smaller all around than the hoop.

What you need

DMC 336 Navy BluePocket edge, pocket hem and pocket stitching
DMC 986 Very Dark Forest GreenStems and darker half of each leaf
DMC 320 Medium Pistachio GreenLighter half of each leaf
DMC 152 Medium Light Shell PinkBlossom petals
DMC 3852 Very Dark StrawBlossom center
DMC 304 Medium RedHeart outline and small heart

The floss is six-strand cotton; the stitch guide says how many strands to use. You also need a hoop, an embroidery needle (a size 7 to 9 suits two or three strands) and plain cotton or linen fabric. To frame the piece in its hoop, cut a square 3 inches (8 cm) wider than the hoop: a 9 inch (23 cm) square for a 6 inch hoop.

Stitch guide

Stem stitch 2 or 3 strandsPocket edge, pocket hem, stems, heart outline
Back stitch 2 strandsPocket stitching
Satin stitch 2 strandsLeaves (each half slanted to the center vein, in its own color), blossom petals, small heart
French knot 2 strands, two wrapsBlossom center

Getting it onto your fabric

The PDF holds the pattern twice at actual size: once as drawn, and once mirrored for an iron-on transfer pen. Print it at 100% with scaling off and check the one-inch square (25.4 mm) with a ruler before you trace. How to transfer a pattern explains tracing, carbon paper and the other ways. The files are under Downloads.