Coffee Gnome with Hot Cup Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Heres the coffee gnome and hes got that grumpy-cute morning energy. Tall droopy red knit hat hangs over where his eyes should be. Fluffy cream beard takes up most of his body. Tan-coloured boots stick out at the bottom. Two stubby arms wrap around a brown mug of coffee with little grey steam wisps curling up off the surface. Hes shaped like a pear, basically.

Eight threads doing the colour work here. Tomato red dominates the hat, then cream and white for that big bushy beard. Brown for the mug, mocha for the coffee swirl on top, warm tan for the boots, soft grey for the steam wisps and a small black blob for the gnome nose poking out of all that beard. Honestly its kinda just the sweetest little kitchen mascot.

I drew this one for kitchen towels and barista aprons specifically. People keep asking me for gnome designs that arent just generic christmas gnomes. This works year-round, its genuinely nice on a coffee bar setup or a mug-warmer station. One customer ordered the 7-inch panel last november for a homemade coffee shop apron and lemme tell ya, those grey steam curls came out lookin like they were actually rising off the cup.

Stitch on plain solid fabric, light or medium tone. Pop on cream waffle weave kitchen towels, oat-coloured aprons, soft sage tea towels or a charcoal canvas tote and the red hat sings against any of those. Skip patterned fabric because the gnomes silhouette gets noisy fast. Skip dark black aswell, the cream beard goes muddy with low contrast.

Stitch density runs about 24k on the biggest 7.5-inch size, 8.5k on the 3.5 small. Eight colour changes total so cue em in advance, its gonna take a sec on the bigger panels. Drop midweight cutaway behind on knits, tearaway works on woven kitchen cotton. Pop a topping if youre digitising onto fleece or terry towel because the beard fluff needs the underlay support. Reach me on whatsapp if any panel renders soft at the edges.