Utah hand embroidery pattern

Easy · 2 colors · 2 kinds of stitch

The outline of Utah is worked in dark green back stitch: a tall shape with square corners and a notch cut from its upper right corner. Inside it, a little below the middle, sits a small red heart in satin stitch. Move the heart to your own town before you trace.

Size and details

Easy. In a hoop of 6 inches or less: back stitch, with a little satin stitch; in a larger hoop the widest satin stitches are long.

2 colors of floss and 2 kinds of stitch:

The stitched size and the widest satin stitch, by hoop
Hoop	Inches	Centimeters	Satin stitch up to
3 in (8 cm)	1.2 × 1.5 in	3 × 3.8 cm	1/8 in (3 mm)
4 in (10 cm)	1.7 × 2.2 in	4.3 × 5.6 cm	3/16 in (5 mm)
5 in (13 cm)	2.3 × 3 in	5.8 × 7.6 cm	1/4 in (6 mm)
6 in (15 cm)	2.9 × 3.7 in	7.4 × 9.4 cm	5/16 in (8 mm)
8 in (20 cm)	4.1 × 5.2 in	10.4 × 13.2 cm	3/8 in (10 mm)

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

What you need

DMC 986 Very Dark Forest GreenOutline
DMC 304 Medium RedHeart

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

Back stitch 2 strandsOutline
Satin stitch 2 strandsHeart

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.