Fire & Ice Lion Head Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres the fire and ice lion head in 9 sizes, its got serious wildlife mythic split-personality energy. Side profile, looking right, the mane is the whole nature story. Top half licks up in flame orange and mustard yellow flares like the wild animal just walked out of a bonfire. Bottom half drops into ice blue shards and frozen splinters, like the same beast came back from a glacier on the other side.

The face itself runs cream white with hatched line shading carrying the cheek shadows, the muzzle and the brow ridge. One amber eye glows forward, alert. Whiskers are picked out in pale satin and the mouth shadow uses navy line work. Set on jet black, the whole thing reads like a tour poster, it just punches off the cloth.

I been digitising for the metal merch and gym apparel crowd alot lately, and this one slots in perfect. Last halloween a customer wrote me asking for a tee design that worked for ice-cold pre-game lifters and fire-up motivational types both, I sent this and she ordered the 7.5 inch run for her whole crossfit class.

Pick dark cloth. Jet black, charcoal or deep navy because the orange flame and ice blue need a dark backdrop to glow out. Skip white or cream, the white face vanishes into the shirt and the contrast collapses, youll lose the elemental split. Pick a tight-weave heavy cotton or fleece, the chunky satin mane fills sit best on stable cloth.

Density is heavy, 11 thread changes and 29k stitches at biggest size, so back it with heavy black cutaway, hoop firm, swap to polyester thread for the orange and blue saturation. Drop the speed before the dense flame transitions because the colour swap from orange to mustard sits tight and rushed tension can pull. Its definately worth pacing yourself. Drop a stitchout if the density feels wrong on knits.