Its a skull buried under a full paint explosion. Magenta is the loudest colour here, it wraps around the cranium like someone threw a bucket at it. Cobalt blue fills the left side and teal bleeds in from the right. Lime green and yellow show up in smaller splats and the paint drips hang down below the jaw in long vertical strings. The eye sockets stay hollow and black which is what keeps it reading as a skull underneath all that chaos.
9 colours total, 10 colour changes, and embroidery software digitised the satin outlines at proper density so every layer has clean edge definition even on the smallest 3 size. And thats the impressive bit, the stitch density here is alot to manage across five sizes (23k up to 56k stitches on the biggest) but my professional tool handled the tatami fills without getting muddy where the colour zones stack on top of each other.
I built this one after a local tattoo parlour asked me for something they could put on staff aprons and merch bags. They wanted skull but not cartoonish, more like the kind of thing youd see on a festival tee or a music venue wall. This design gets messages every october from halloween costume builders but honestly its popular year round with alt-fashion shops and custom streetwear sellers.
Stitch it on black cotton or charcoal canvas so the dark background does nothing and all the colour pops off the fabric. Skip white or pale grey, the magenta and teal need contrast to sing. Pop the 7.5-inch on a back panel, use the 4.5-inch on a chest, and the 3.5-inch works on a beanie front or tote pocket. Use a firm cutaway stabiliser, the density here will buckle a tearaway.
What people are using this design for
A starting point. The design works for plenty more than just this list, this is what folks have stitched it onto most.
- Halloween costume tees and hoodiesStitch the 5.5-inch on a black cotton tee for a halloween costume that actually looks like something you chose on purpose.
- Tattoo parlour staff aprons and merchPop the medium build on a waxed canvas apron for tattoo studio staff and it holds up through washing without colour bleed.
- Alternative fashion tote bagsEmbroider the small 3.5 on a navy canvas tote for an alt boutique and it sells itself on the shop floor.
- Festival and band merch back panelsUse the biggest 7.5-inch across a festival hoodie back panel and the magenta reads from 20 feet away under stage lights.
- Punk and grunge jacket patchesSew onto a denim jacket back as a statement patch and frame it with a cutaway backing so the drips dont distort.
- Custom streetwear chest logosRun the chest-sized version on black fleece crewnecks for a custom streetwear drop last autumn and the colourways photograph well.
- Spooky home decor cushion coversHoop on a black velvet cushion cover for a gothic lounge and the tatami fills sit beautifully on the pile.
Dimensions
5 sizes included. Stitch counts shown for the largest colorway.
| Size (in) | Stitches |
|---|---|
| 3.50 × 2.63 in | 23,936 |
| 4.50 × 3.38 in | 31,195 |
| 5.51 × 4.13 in | 39,050 |
| 6.51 × 4.88 in | 47,413 |
| 7.51 × 5.63 in | 56,067 |
Files & Formats
Eight machine formats included in one zip. Whichever your machine reads, its in the pack.








Plus a color chart for thread matching. See full format guide.
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Reyazul Masud Riham, hand-drawing every design on this site
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