Halloween Gnome with Ghosts Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Classic decorative gnome silhouette but done up for halloween. Long drooping nose, practically the centrepiece of the whole design, which is just how gnomes work. Hat is shaped like a pumpkin, rounded and squat, with a carved jack-o-lantern face stitched right onto the front of it. Beard is huge and takes up the bottom two thirds of the design, the way illustrated gnomes always have their beard as basically a body replacement. Small feet or boots poke out from the bottom hem. Then floating around him are a couple of small cartoon ghosts, simple rounded shapes with oval black eyes and wavy underedges, looking like theyre keeping him company rather than haunting him.

Density sits at 1,120 which is comfortably in the dense-but-workable range. Stitch count goes from 25,120 at the smallest up to 63,068 at the largest, so the big end is a real commitment of machine time. The pumpkin hat face detail is the technically interesting part, its a hat-within-a-hat moment where the orange hat fill needs to be dense enough to not show the base fabric through, and then the carved face elements stitch over the top cleanly. Cutaway stabiliser is basically mandatory here, not optional.

Autumn home decor and halloween gift items are where this lives. Gnome designs have been popular in the north american market for a few years now and the halloween version comes out every october without fail. Ive seen it used on velveteen pillows, on canvas shopping totes, on halloween throw blankets as a border element and on burlap door signs. One customer ran the 7.51-inch version on a burlap tote bag last halloween with the words BOO in block letters underneath and said it sold out at a craft fair in about 2 hours.

5 sizes from 3.51 to 7.51 inch wide. Use heavy cutaway stabiliser under everything and hoop very firm. Slow the machine through the beard fill because thats where the majority of your thread is going at 63k stitches max. Avoid lightweight tearaway on this one, itll pull under all that dense thread. Skip pale or thin fabric at the large size since youll want the base colour to hold the fill properly. Every common format in the download so it should open wherever you need it. Holler if theres any file issues.