Retro Rainbow Sun Quote Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Worked up this one to be a kinda just old-school sun piece, seriously stripped back. Two colours: orange and black. The sun itself is a circle with short spiky rays going all the way round the outside edge, and inside the disc theres a thick concentric rainbow shape made from closely-packed satin rows. Its not the usual gradient-coloured rainbow you see everywhere, its the same burnt orange as the rest of the design but the arch reads clearly because of how the directional stitching is laid. Makes the whole thing feel like something from a 70s screen print.

Below the sun, 'hello sunshine' runs in a chunky retro serif in black, both words stacked. The letterforms have that slight blocky imperfection you get in letterpress printing. the software I use handled the underlay routing so the satin fill on the rays sits flat without pulling the fabric centre out of shape. 32 trims at the 2-inch size, which is a lot, but at the larger end the trims drop and the machine runs cleaner.

Six sizes from 1.62 inches wide up to 5.66 inches, and the stitch count range is massive: 4,883 at the tiny end to 22,485 at the largest. That big 5.66-inch version needs a heavy cutaway stabiliser and a firm hoop tension or youll see some shifting in the satin rows. One customer ran the 3-inch hoop on a flour sack cotton this past April and said the satin rays came out smooth and the back was tidy with just a standard cutaway underneath.

Use the 2-inch size on small zip pouches or hat panels where space is tight. Pop the 5-in centred on a plain white sweatshirt front this coming summer and the two-colour simplicity actually makes it easier to colour-match your thread to any project. Pair it with cream or natural linen for a warm retro look. Skip dark backgrounds unless you swap the orange for a contrasting lighter thread, because the rays can read muddied against anything deeper than mid-grey.