Halloween Gnome with Pumpkin Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Gnome bodies are basically hat plus beard plus feet and this one commits to all three. The hat is huge, a floppy burnt-orange cone that takes up the top half of the design, with a small skull badge stitched near the brim in white and dark brown. Its kinda the most halloween thing ive put on a gnome hat. The beard below it is long and white with a crosshatch directional fill that gives it actual texture, like chenille almost. Two small hands poke out from the sides holding an orange pumpkin with carved face lines at chest level. Tiny rounded feet at the base, barely there.

Thirteen colours is the highest count in the whole halloween gnome series. The hat alone takes 3 orange tones to get that depth, and the beard uses warm grey plus white plus a shadow tone to build the volume. Wilcom layered the beard sections with angled underlay before the main crosshatch, which is why the texture reads properly even at the smaller 3.49-inch size. The pumpkin is a flat satin orange with carved line details in dark brown, simple but it reads clearly from a distance. 13 stops on the machine but dont let that put you off.

This is kinda the classic fall seasonal design, the one that sells hardest between late september and november 1st. A customer who does craft market batches ordered 20 tea towel sets with the 3.49-inch gnome on cream linen last october. Said it was the most commented item on her table. She came back in january wanting to know if I had a christmas version. I do but it's in a separate listing.

Works best on cream linen, white cotton, or natural canvas where the orange-and-white palette has room to breathe. Avoid dark fabric because the white beard becomes the most important element and it needs contrast to read properly. Use cutaway stabiliser at all sizes, the 45k stitch max is alot of density for the hat sections. Dial the rpm back slightly on the beard crosshatch, thats the section with the most directional complexity in the whole design.