Adorable Bee Happy Gnome Embroidery Design, Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

My sister-in-law kept sending me pictures of bee gnome designs last spring saying none were quite right, so I drew a purple-hat version with lavender. The bumble bee sits upper-left hovering above a soft lavender sprig, its wings light and airy in pale blue. On the right the gnome takes up most of the space, that huge fluffy grey-white beard filling nearly his whole body with tiny peach hands at the sides and dark grey boots at the bottom. His floppy purple hat leans slightly right with leaf shapes done in directional satin across it. "Bee Happy" sits in smaller lettering below and then "Honey" spans big and bold across the bottom in warm golden yellow. The 5 inch on a linen tote is kinda what I had in mind when I worked out the proportions.

But the beard is the part with alot of stitches to get right. Its built in layered grey-white tatami, not a flat fill, and thats what gives it that soft fluffy texture in real thread. Cutaway stabiliser is non-negotiable for this design. If you use tearaway on cotton jersey the satin fill on the hat will warp and pull on you. Hoop firm with at least medium-weight cutaway and put a water-soluble topping over those lavender sprigs if you're stitching on fleece or terry cloth so the fibre doesnt swallow the small petal detail.

Use the 4 inch on a baby bib in cream cotton and the peach face reads perfectly at that scale. Stitch the 6 inch on a canvas spring tote for a bloom-season market bag and the golden yellow text pops against natural fabric. Skip tearaway on any knit even if the fabric feels stable, the underlay under those satin hat panels needs cutaway to hold. Iron a light cutaway piece before you hoop fleece, it makes positioning much cleaner.

Reach out if it drags on thin fabric.