Peace Love Sunshine Embroidery Design, Summer Sunflower Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

This is kinda just a summer feel-good design. Three icons in a row, peace hand on the left filled in orange, open-outline heart in black at the centre, sunflower on the right with a realy interesting leopard-print centre disc, and then the words Peace Love Sunshine in a thick cursive running underneath with dot dividers between each word. The whole layout is really really horizontal so its built for shirt chest panels, tote bag fronts, or wide hat brims where you want width more than height.

2 colours: orange and black. Orange goes in first as stop 1, covering the peace hand plus the sunflower petals at around 7,800 stitches at the 6-inch size. Swap to black for stop 2, which handles the heart outline, the leopard-spot clusters in the disc centre, plus all the script lettering underneath. Digitising density is 583 in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio, so the orange petal satin holds firm and cursive letterforms stay crisp even at the 6-inch where theyre relatively small. Stitch the script section with a topping on fleece or terry so ya dont end up with loops swallowing the letterforms.

3 sizes: 6 inch (15,594 stitches), 7 inch (18,702 stitches), 8 inch (22,053 stitches). Use cutaway stabiliser for knits, tear-away handles most wovens fine. Hoop tight and dont rush pulling the frame, the script baseline is the most sensitive element. I ran the 8-inch on a cream canvas tote last July and the orange pops realy well against that neutral background. One customer messaged me the same week to say they'd done the same thing in a slightly deeper gold thread and it looked even warmer, so thats worth knowing. Pick a thread with decent colourfast rating if its going outdoors, orange fades fast on cheap thread in direct sun.

Works on tees aswell, the 6-inch sits on a youth-medium chest without reaching the underarm seam. One colour change total. Two stops.