Coffee Gnome Embroidery Design, Whimsical Kitchen Pattern

This is the coffee gnome and honestly its one of the chunkier gnome designs Ive digitised. The gnome himself is short and round with a big drooping brown hat that takes up most of the upper half. His beard is a full fluffy grey mass hiding everything below his tiny golden nose, and his feet poke out at the bottom like two little boots. Closed sleepy eyes make him feel kinda cosy and content.

Right beside him sits a tall latte cup on a saucer with a proper swirling foam pattern on top and 3 curling steam lines rising up, a tiny heart worked into the topmost curl. A scatter of coffee beans sits around the saucer base and grounds the whole composition so it doesnt look floaty. The cup carries warm tan and cream threads with a dark brown outline, the saucer an off-white. Nine colour threads total, stitch count running from 24,721 on from a 3-in chest up to 61,949 on the largest, so this isnt a quick hoop.

I get messages from customers who do kitchen towels and apron sets asking if this works on terry cloth and waffle weave. It does, but use a water-soluble topping over the looped surface so the needle doesnt snag. Cutaway stabiliser is what I recommend for all 5 sizes regardless of fabric because the density sits at 1,057 and a tearaway wont hold cleanly under that much thread. Stitch it slow on the beard section, directional stitching in the grey fill responds better to a reduced machine speed. A customer wrote me last month after trying this on a tea towel set and she said it came out better than expected on the waffle weave once she added the topping.

Smallest size is about 3.7 inches wide, largest goes to 7.3 inches, all 5 sizes digitised in industry tools. Works well on cotton canvas, fleece, denim, and medium-weight linen. Skip thin voile or jersey for the large size as the density will pull the fabric. Send me a note if any format doesnt load right and ill sort a replacement same day.