Festive Christmas Love Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

LOVE sits big and blocky across the bottom of the design, and a string of fairy lights winds through all four letters and drapes down at the sides, individual bulbs in red, yellow, and green hanging off the wire. L is golden yellow with a slight textured fill. O uses diagonal red and yellow stripes running across the whole face. V matches the O, same stripe direction, and E is solid green. Each letter has a chunky black outline that reads clearly from a distance even at the smaller sizes.

Right at the junction where V meets E, the gnome is perched, sitting like he owns the place. His hat is tall, red and white horizontal stripes, with a round red bauble on the tassel tip. Its almost entirely hidden, just a round nose peeking out below a big full grey beard that fans out wide over the letters. Two small arms reach down holding part of the light string, and thats kind of the whole personality right there, the nose and hat do all the work and the beard is basically the body.

Twelve colours, four sizes from 3.5 by 3 inches up to 6.5 by 5.6 inches, stitch range from 27,881 at the smallest to 57,014 on the full large. Thats a stitch-dense file so budget twenty to thirty minutes of machine time at the top size. Use a medium-weight cutaway underneath on any size past the small, the letter fills are dense enough to pull on a thin stabiliser. A customer ran the large on a cream canvas tote last December and said it came out clean first try, which is honestly what youre going for at 57k stitches.

Go with natural linen, cream canvas, or off-white cotton for the cleanest result. Pull a warm golden yellow thread for the L rather than a pale lemon, it can look muddy against cream if the shade is too close. Avoid fleece at the larger size, the tall hat stripes need a firm stable base to sit flat. Send me a note if the gnome beard fill pulls away from the letter outline and Ill find a thread substitute that holds the gap.