Festive Christmas Nurse Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres one for the nurse in your life. A black stethoscope sits at the bottom with the tubing curling up and around in a loop, chest piece dangling down right, earpieces poking up into a holly wreath thats grown around the top of the design. Six holly leaf clusters in dark forest green frame the inside of the wreath, with bright red berries grouped in threes between em, and two lil red and white candy canes tuck into the lower left and right corners. Real clean compact layout.

Four colours, dark green + red + white + black, with 3 colour changes per run. The dark green carries the leaf work and runs 4,023 stitches on the smallest 3.31-inch wide version, climbing to 8,621 on the 7.09-inch wide one. Total stitches go 9,342 small to 20,542 large. Density sits around 386 so the satin sits flat on poly-cotton without the leaf veins sinking. Ive digitised it in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio with directional underlay on the stethoscope tubing which keeps the long curving black satin column clean even at the largest size.

One customer ordered the 4.5-inch version last december for her sister-in-laws scrub top pocket. Used a navy poly-cotton scrub fabric, tearaway stabiliser, and 40wt poly thread because the scrubs go through hospital laundry alot and rayon doesnt hold up. She wrote me afterwards, the candy canes survived seven washes and still looked crisp.

Stitch the 3.31-inch on a scrub top left chest pocket. Pop the 4.5-inch on a nurse tote bag side panel. Pick the 5.5-inch for a scrub jacket back yoke. Use the 6.5-inch on a fleece pullover left chest. Run the 7.09-inch on a personalised cushion gift for a nurses retirement. Skip thin gauze or modal blends. The thread density pulls the weave. Best on standard scrub blends, brushed cotton, or canvas. Hoop with a cutaway base layer and a strip of water-soluble topping on knit so the candy cane stripes dont sink into the fluff.