Baking Because Murder Is Wrong Embroidery Design, Instant Download

BAKING sits across the top in big chunky hand-drawn block capitals, the kind that look like someone wrote em with a fat marker on a chalkboard. Below the text is the gnome himself, a kinda round little fella in a full pink apron and a tall pink chefs hat, white beard going in all directions, wide grin on his face. He's got a tray of cupcakes in one hand and a single cupcake raised up in the other like he's really proud of it. Red frosting on every cupcake, the piping detail is actually stitched not just a flat fill which is nice. Then at the bottom in the same rough block lettering: "because murder is wrong."

Fifteen colours in the file, which sounds like alot but the gnome alone has warm tan skin, dusty pink clothes, cream beard, golden brown boots, a dark green apron tie, the cupcake cases, the frosting red. my software did the digitising and you can feel it in the way the gnomes body shading works. The design runs 7.5 inches wide by 5.16 inches tall on the biggest size and drops to 3.5 by 2.41 on the smallest, 9 sizes total.

I made this one because honestly every baker I know has said some version of this joke. One customer wrote me last october saying she runs a home bakery and put it on twelve aprons for a friends Christmas gift swap, said every single person in the group already knew the phrase. Thats the thing about this design, you dont need to explain it to anyone who bakes. It just lands.

Stitch it on a black cotton apron for maximum contrast on the white chalk-style lettering. Works just as well on a cream or oatmeal apron if black feels too bold. Use cutaway stabiliser underneath, 34k stitches on the big size needs something that wont shift mid-hoop. Avoid digitising any extra text on the same piece, the layout already fills the frame nicely. Send me message if the colour stops seem off on your machine and Ill walk ya through the sequence.