Guitar Sunset Palm Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Put together this guitar sunset design for musicians who also love the beach aesthetic -- or really anyone who wants a chill, laid-back graphic on a bag or shirt. Its a tall narrow silhouette design: guitar in the centre running vertically, palm trees leaning in on either side, and a sunset with radiating rays behind the whole scene. Everything is one colour, all in silhouette. The detail comes from the line density and the overlapping shapes reading against each other.

Single colour, dense at 1036. The narrow portrait format -- 1.47 to 3.14 inches wide -- means its designed for vertical placement like a bag side seam, a guitar strap, or a shirt sleeve. Heres the thing about narrow dense designs: the backing matters even more than usual because theres alot of stitch mass concentrated in a thin strip. Pop a firm cutaway underneath and if youre stitching on something with nap like fleece or velvet stick water-soluble topping on top. On smooth canvas or denim it runs clean. Skip stabiliser on strap webbing and the dense fill will bubble up.

Five sizes, all very narrow and tall. Widths from 1.47 to 3.14 inches, heights from 3.5 to 7.5 inches. Stitch counts 9334 to 24390. The 3 inch wide by 7.5 inch tall version is the one most people use for bag straps or sleeve panels. built in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio and the palm frond edges are sharp at every size -- they dont turn into blobs at the smaller widths.

A customer wrote me last summer -- they stitched the tall version on both sides of a guitar strap and said it came out really professional looking. They use a canvas strap blank with medium cutaway fused to the back before hooping. Use a strong stabiliser on any strap material, the stretch in most strap webbing doesnt play well with dense fills without support. Great for batch production on merch bags for a band or music venue.