Rasta Hibiscus Flower Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The hibiscus has 5 petals arranged around a central column, each petal a separate colour from the rasta palette. Going around: fire red on two petals, a deep bottle green on one large petal opposite, bright golden yellow on another, and a smaller sage petal filling the gap. The colours dont blend at the seams, each petal is its own fill block, which is what gives it that flag-like quality even though its a flower. The stamen column rises from the centre in the same golden yellow, with 4 red berry-tip dots clustered at the top.

5 colours, 5 distinct sections, clean transitions between them. Each petal uses directional stitching that follows its curve from base to tip, so under good lighting you can see the stitching direction shift as you move around the bloom. Thats the detail that makes this one look digitised rather than printed. At 34,799 stitches on the largest size, its a substantial piece of work for the machine, heavy cutaway stabiliser is the right call on any fabric that might shift.

Customers have been ordering this design every spring, mostly caribbean event organisers and reggae festival merch sellers. Back in august a buyer ran the mid-size 5 on black denim shorts for a caribbean music festival vendor stall, bright rasta colours on black denim is genuinely one of the best fabric combinations for this design.

Black denim is the best base, hands down. But it also works well on dark navy, charcoal, and dark forest green cotton where the red and gold pops. Avoid pale or light fabric because the sage green petal reads as almost white at a distance and the rasta read is lost. Use firm cutaway stabiliser regardless of fabric type because the petal fills at the bigger sizes put considerable density into one area. my workhorse software handled the bobbin tension well at full size but ease the machine speed on those wide petal sections to keep your bobbin thread from showing on the surface.