{"product_id":"christmas-love-gnome","title":"Christmas LOVE Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eRight so buckle up, because its a lot going on. The word LOVE sits in big chunky block letters and every single letter dresses up for christmas. The L has a full red Santa hat flopped over the top of it with a cream pompom. The O has a candy cane leaning through the negative space. The V has a holly sprig and a string of those little oval christmas lights draped across it. And the E has a tiny gnome sitting right on top, feet dangling, holding a red heart up, the gnome has a pink polka-dot hat and a little grey beard. At the base of the whole arrangement theres two wrapped gift boxes, one green one red, and a small candle with a flame. Its genuinely busy but it works because everything holds its position tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven colours and a density of 1,226 stitches per square inch, so youre looking at a heavy machine run. Smallest size is 3.51 by 3.12 inches starting at 27,059 stitches, the largest is 7.51 by 6.67 inches reaching 61,407. Thats quite alot of stitches for the big size so make sure your bobbin is full and your needle is fresh before you start. my standard software digitised this so the colour sequencing minimises jumps, which helps a lot on a dense design like this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIm really proud of how the gnome came out on this. The face is barely 2 centimetres tall on the smaller sizes and it still reads as a face, which is genuinely difficult to pull off at that density and I was happy with how it stitched out. Use a medium-to-heavy cutaway stabiliser and hoop very firmly. Stitch the body sections before the gnome hat. Float a topping on fleece or pile fabric. Fleece, felt, sweatshirt fabric, heavy cotton canvas and quilting cotton all work. Light linen will buckle under that stitch count so Id avoid it unless you double up the stabiliser and float a tearaway on top. Pick white or cream for the background, the magenta-purple letters really pop against a neutral. Skip anything dark if you want the full gnome detail to read at smaller sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCustomers have been putting this design on christmas cushions and holiday sweatshirts alot. A couple of customers have also done it on stockings which works nicely because the letters stack vertically and the stocking shape mirrors that. If you run into any trouble with the gnome detail at smaller sizes drop me a message and ill take a look at what youre seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45915317207190,"sku":null,"price":4.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/ChristmasLOVEGnomeEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1764675018","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/christmas-love-gnome","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}