Christmas Gnome with Bow and Staff Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The gnome stands dead centre, short and round the way gnomes always are, with this tall pointed green hat that takes up half his body height. Theres a big fluffy white pom-pom right at the tip, and right where the hat meets his face theres a chunky red bow sitting like a present decoration. Proper statement bow, not a little accent one. The beard is massive and done with directional stitching so it actually reads like fluffy white fur, not just a flat satin fill. His little peach nose pokes out just above the beard line. Body is a pink and white candy-stripe pattern and hes holding a wooden staff in one hand, leaning on it slightly. Black boots at the bottom.

Its a 10 colour design with 5 sizes, the largest hitting 7.51 inches tall and coming in just under 53,000 stitches. Densest areas are the beard and hat where all the texture stitching stacks up. Hoop with a good cutaway stabiliser under any mid-weight fabric, the beard especially needs solid backing to keep the fill clean and the directional rows tight. I digitised this in my standard software so the underlay layers are already handled, you dont need to add extra yourself.

I sold a bunch of these to people making christmas stockings and holiday tote bags. The gnome reads really well at 5 inches on a tea towel or apron, and the larger 7.5 inch version stitches up great on a fleece blanket or sweatshirt back. And the bow colour matches well with standard christmas red thread so theres no tricky thread-matching needed on most machines. Pop a topping sheet over the beard section when hooping fleece to stop the loops catching in the satin stitching.

Use a tearaway for lighter cotton fabrics like quilting cotton or muslin, swap to cutaway for anything with stretch. If your machine shows the red bow looking a bit flat, try slowing the speed down 10 percent for the satin columns, it helps the thread settle better.