Floral Skull Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Mocked this up last june wanting a proper day-of-the-dead skull where the flowers werent just stuck on top but actually seemed to grow out of the skull itself. The hibiscus heads sit right in the eye socket area, petals overlapping the orbital ridge, so theres this moment where you cant tell if youre looking at flowers or the dark hollows of the eyes. Below that the jaw is clean and grinning, no flowers, just teeth and bone.

Single black thread, 1 colour, zero stops. Wilcom EmbroideryStudio ran the digitising with 548 density across the flower fill sections, which keeps the petals from going too stiff. Theres 79 trims in this file, the highest trim count in this design set, because each petal cluster gets individually trimmed between the satin sections. That means more handling time if youre doing a big production run, just worth knowing upfront. Use a medium cutaway stabiliser on a charcoal hoodie, dont go tearaway because the flower weight will pull the fabric sideways during stitching.

5 sizes, 4 inches up to 8 inches wide. Smallest stitch count is 12,050, biggest is 24,268. The 8-inch is the one that really lets the skull proportions breathe, its tall and narrow in aspect so on a wide hoodie back it sits perfectly centred without looking squashed. One customer wanted this scaled to 4 inches for a pocket, and it worked fine but the flower detail is tight at that scale. Check your machine density setting before you run it on smaller hoops, some older machines need that dialled back slightly under 5 inches. Avoid shiny poly on the petals if you want a softer, more natural finish. Rayon thread blooms better than standard poly on satin flower fill at this density.

Best fabric is a charcoal or deep navy hoodie. Black thread on charcoal gives that slightly tonal look in real life while reading as solid black in photos. Text me if you want advice on thread brand for the satin petals.