Artist Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This gnome is a painter and it shows. The whole design is built around that massive swirling yellow hat, which looks like someone squeezed every colour on the palette onto it. Theres red blobs, teal splashes, green dots, orange drips and a little blue streak, all scattered across the hat like its been in the studio for a while. Its messy on purpose and thats exactly the charm.

Below the hat theres barely any gnome visible, just a round purple robe and two tiny purple feet at the bottom. On the left side three paintbrushes stick out at different angles with their bristle ends up, handles in warm brown and grey. On the right he is holding a proper wooden palette, small blobs of paint on it in red, teal, yellow and green, with that characteristic kidney shape and a thumb hole. The long wavy hair is a soft ice blue and sits either side of the robe.

Twenty colours total and the digitising does something clever with the hat, the satin runs in the hat follow the spiral bands of the brim so the sheen changes direction as you go around it. One customer last autumn wanted the 5.5-inch hoop for a tote bag they give to art students and said that swirling hat reads almost metallic in person on cream canvas. So yeah, fabric choice matters here, light fabrics only.

Pop this on a plain light tee, a canvas pouch or a craft bag and its instantly a conversation piece. Skip dark fabrics because the yellow hat loses its punch against them. Stitch count is moderate at the smaller sizes but climbs to about 42k at the largest, so use a cutaway stabiliser throughout. The directional satin on the hat wont sit flat without a decent underlay, run a test swatch first if youre new to multi-colour character designs. Ping me in the shop if youre unsure about your stabiliser setup and Ill point you in the right direction.