The gnome has that classic look: barely any face visible, mostly just the big nose poking out from under the pointed hat, and oversized feet planted wide. But the hat here is a rich red with visible banded satin columns running across the cone rather than a flat fill, and the outfit has proper colour-blocked sections with at least 10 thread colours giving the whole gnome depth and warmth. The sewing items in its hands sit small but recognisable, which is genuinely hard to digitise cleanly at this scale. The whole character sits in a roughly square footprint at each of its 5 sizes from 3.5 reaching 7.5 inches.
Stitch density is 952 which is on the high end, and the total count tops out at 53,506 on the full 7.5-inch version. Thats a long hoop session. Id budget 90 minutes minimum on a standard home machine for the biggest size and keep an eye on your bobbin because 10 colour changes and that stitch density chews through thread in a way that sneaks up on you if youre not checking. Cutaway stabiliser is needed here, medium-weight minimum. The dense hat and clothing sections need proper backing or you get puckering at the colour-change boundaries where the fill sections meet.
Sewers and quilters love this design and I sell it constantly to people making tote bags for craft room decor or gifts for sewing friends. My customers buy it more for gifting to other sewers than for any other purpose. One customer told me last spring she stitches one of these every time she finishes a big quilt, like a little reward project for herself. And honestly thats exactly the right energy for it. Best results on natural linen or a sturdy cotton canvas where the weight of the fabric holds up to the density without pulling.
Use linen or heavy cotton, avoid anything with stretch. Go with the 5-inch for tote bags, the 7.5-inch for a proper wall piece or quilt label, and the 3.5-inch if you want it on a project bag side pocket. The hat texture and colour banding really sings at the bigger sizes where theres room for the detail to show up clearly.
What people are using this design for
A starting point. The design works for plenty more than just this list, this is what folks have stitched it onto most.
- Sewing room tote bag personalised giftSewing room wall hoop at 7.5 inches: the density at 952 shows off what a properly calibrated machine can do and the character reads across the room
- Craft room decor wall hoopNatural linen project bag at 5 inches for a quilter: a practical gift that gets used rather than displayed, which is the point
- Quilter gift project bagSewing teacher end-of-year appreciation gift on a small cotton cushion, personal without crossing into generic mug-and-card territory
- Sewing teacher appreciation giftQuilt label on white cotton at 4 inches stitched to the back lower corner: adds warmth and story to a finished quilt without overwhelming the quilt back
- Quilt label signature blockSewing guild raffle prize on a zip pouch at 4 inches, popular enough with craft communities that it reliably generates enquiries about where to get the file
- Embroidery hoop display pieceGym duffel side panel for a sewist who takes their project bag to classes; a linen patch stitched and applied by hand works well on a canvas side pocket
- Sewing guild member giftSewing studio shelf decor on a small linen frame, the ten-colour build with the red banded hat catches the eye among the neutral thread storage
Dimensions
5 sizes included. Stitch counts shown for the largest colorway.
| Size (in) | Stitches |
|---|---|
| 3.51 × 3.50 in | 19,179 |
| 4.51 × 4.49 in | 26,161 |
| 5.51 × 5.49 in | 34,124 |
| 6.51 × 6.48 in | 43,617 |
| 7.51 × 7.48 in | 53,506 |
Files & Formats
Eight machine formats included in one zip. Whichever your machine reads, its in the pack.
Plus a color chart for thread matching. See full format guide.
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Reyazul Masud Riham, hand-drawing every design on this site
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