Mountain Landscape with River Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The whole scene sits inside an arch shape with no hard border, the composition itself forms the edge. A jagged snow-capped mountain fills the upper half, white peak against a large rose-red circular sun that dominates the background. Tall black pine trees stand on both sides, dark forest green on the insides, pure black silhouette on the outer edges. Down the centre a winding white river path pulls the eye from the foreground boulders straight up to the mountain base. The foreground rocks are rose-pink directional fill, the sky behind the sun is a deeper crimson, and the flat meadow between the trees is a single sage green fill.

Six colours only, and that restraint is what gives this its graphic quality. White for the snow and river, rose pink and crimson for the sky and rocks, sage and deep pine green for the inner tree fills, black for the outlines and pine silhouettes. Wilcom ran the density high at 1,652 because the mountain and sky fills need that weight to look solid at all 9 sizes. The largest at 7.5 inches carries 73,328 stitches and the fill sections are generous enough that the machine doesnt need to slow down much.

The arch-vignette format makes this one particularly popular on canvas bags where the shape reads like a window into a landscape. One customer ordered 6 of em for a hiking group gift earlier this year, the 4-inch size on olive drab canvas pouches. She said the white river line was the element everyone noticed first when they picked it up. Thats the directional underlay doing its job under the white fill.

Best on olive, khaki, cream, or white cotton and canvas. The sage green and forest sections actually disappear on dark green fabric so avoid that. Use heavy cutaway stabiliser because the density is real at the larger sizes. Hoop tight, standard speed is fine for the background fills, and dont rush the pine sections, the black silhouette sections have dense satin that benefits from a slightly slower pass.