Mountain River Sunset Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Mountain river sunset is the kinda woodland scene that belongs on a national park poster. Big orange sun rises up behind two snow-capped peaks dead centre, a thin halo of light fanning outwards. 2 dense pine clusters flank the left and right edges in dark inky shapes. A pale blue river curves down out of the mountains through the bottom of the frame, narrow at the top and widening as it pours forward. Whole scene reads circular, like youre looking through a porthole into golden hour over the rockies.

Closer look and the screen-print feel is whats doing the heavy lifting here. Mountain rock uses a halftone dot fill in pale grey to cream so the snow caps blend without looking flat. Sun is solid burnt orange satin with a thin cream rim and 9 hatched ray lines fanning out behind. Pines are clean tearaway-ready forest green silhouettes with subtle directional satin trunk lines. River uses a long pale-blue tatami fill with white squiggle highlights for movement and ripple. 6 thread changes total but the halftone makes it read as 9.

I drew this last autumn for an outfitter buddy who runs a hiking shop up in the rockies. He put the 7-and-a-half inch version on a row of charcoal canvas trail bag flaps for staff and one customer sent a chat the morning after asking for the file for her brothers wedding favours, the bloke proposed on a forest hike. So Ive been seeing it ordered for outdoor adventure tee runs, lodge guest book pillow chests, fathers day cabin gift bags, and dadventure crew hoodies.

Best on cream linen, oatmeal cotton, sage twill, or a navy hoody bc the burnt orange sun lights up against muted cool fabrics. Avoid bright orange or red shirts because the sun merges into the cloth and the whole circle goes flat. Skip terry pile aswell, the loops chop the halftone dots and you lose the poster vibe. Charcoal jersey is gorgeous if youre after a moodier dusk vibe, the pale river really pops.

9 sizes from 3.23 wide and 3.51 tall up to 6.91 by 7.51. Stitch count climbs from 29.1k up to 70.8k so the biggest version wants a heavy cutaway stabiliser, slow machine speed, and a sharp 75/11 needle for the satin sun rim. Tearaway works on canvas. Hoop dead tight bc those tiny dots on the mountain want a stable base or they shift. Ping the shop if any band reads patchy and Ill rebuild the file by morning.