Nurse Floral Stethoscope Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Sketched this one out for the nurses-and-florals crowd and it stitches up into a proper appreciation piece. The stethoscope tube traces a full circle, eartips at the top and the chest piece sitting at the very bottom centre like a pendant. Inside that circle the word Nurse fills the space in a chunky, flowing script with plenty of ink-like variation in stroke width. The letters have a brush-pen kind of weight, thicker on the downstrokes and lighter on the curves.

Around the outside of that circular stethoscope frame theres a loose botanical arrangement. Four or 5 full daisy-type blooms in golden yellow with tight satin petals and a round tonal centre. Then 2 or 3 smaller pink blossoms tucked between them. Bright green leaves in pairs fill out the gaps. And then dotted around the whole arrangement you get these little pink hearts, maybe 8 or so, scattered in the spaces between the flowers. Its not symmetrical in a rigid way, more like someone arranged freshly picked flowers loosely around the frame.

8 colours total: dark charcoal for the tubing and script, 2 greens for the leaves, golden yellow, a deeper orange-yellow for the flower centres, blush pink for the small blooms, soft rose for the scattered hearts, and cream or white for the underlay base. Density sits at 531 stitches per square inch, so its not a punishing stitch count even at the largest 7-inch size where it peaks at 28k stitches. The script uses a satin stitch column approach with careful underlay so the lettering sits flat and doesnt pull the fabric in. Use a medium cutaway stabiliser, especially on stretchy scrubs fabric. Float a topping on any textured ground cloth so the fine leaf vein detail and the tiny hearts dont get lost.

I've had nurses and nursing students order this one since last march when I first listed it. One customer wrote me to say she stitched it on a tote bag for her daughter's nursing school graduation and cried when she saw it on the table. Thats the kind of thing that makes digitising worth it.

Pick pale or medium backgrounds, white, light blue, pale pink, soft grey or lavender scrub colours. Avoid heavy canvas for the smaller sizes as the script needs a smooth ground to sit cleanly. Best results on plain-weave cotton or a smooth poly-cotton scrubs fabric. Run the stethoscope outline first, then the flowers, then the script last so you can verify placement before committing to the lettering fill. Drop me a message if the script satin on the small sizes is giving you grief and Ill walk you through the stabiliser fix.