Cute BBQ Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This gnome means business. He's got the tall floppy red hat going sideways, a big round nose you cant miss, and a beard so long and fluffy it basically covers his whole body below the chin. Left hand holds a steel spatula at the ready. Right hand grips the edge of his kettle BBQ, the dome is a deep dark red with the grill grate rendered in warm tan satin lines inside. Its not a subtle design. 9 colours, 8 color changes, and the stitch count climbs to 53,938 on the 7.5-inch which is a proper dense run.

The hat fill uses parallel directional stitching to show the fabric folds, same technique on the beard so the long golden-cream fibres look like they have actual direction and movement. The teal jacket underneath is a small but important accent, without it the gnome would be all red and beige. My dad is a bbq pitmaster guy and he saw this design on my screen last summer and literally asked if he could have one on his grilling apron. Thats when I knew it had the right energy. One customer ordered 12 of these on white drill aprons for a corporate cookout in june and said the grill team loved them.

Nine colours is alot for a design this size so pick up your bobbin halfway through on the 6.5 and 7.5-inch runs and check you havent run low. Stitch on white or cream cotton drill for the clearest read, the red hat pops well on pale grounds. On a black apron the hat still sings but you lose some beard definition, so Id stick to light or grey fabric personally. Use a firm cutaway stabiliser for the 6.5-inch and 7.5-inch, the beard fill and the grill dome are the densest sections and you dont want shifting mid-stitch.

Pop the 5.5-inch on a white BBQ apron front, the 4.5-inch on a kitchen towel or canvas tote, the smaller 3.5-in run on a grilling glove cuff or a dad-joke mug cosy. Great for fathers day gifts, summer party merch and anything sold in a kitchenware or outdoor entertaining shop. One of those designs that writes its own gifting occasion.