The Hunt Is On Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Gnome in hunting gear. Big cream beard, wide-brimmed camo hat, and either a rifle or bow in hand depending on the variation. The lettering above or below reads the hunt is on in a blocky bold style. Eighteen colours across the design, which sounds like alot but you need that many tones to get the beard shading, the camo hat pattern, and the gear detail reading as a proper character and not just a coloured blob. Stitch count goes from 20k at the smallest to 47k at the largest across 9 sizes.

Hunters market design and it sells in waves before hunting season every year. My best customer for this one is a custom apparel shop that does personalised hunting gear and they told me they run it on camouflage cotton twill hats, brown canvas tote bags and orange safety vests for pheasant and deer season. At 5-6 inches the little figure sits on a hat crown without overflowing the brim, and big enough at 7.5 inches for a jacket back or a bag panel. Last september a hunting store in rural Wisconsin messaged me saying they'd sold out of all their gnome-themed hats two weeks before deer opener and needed a rush restock.

Eighteen colour changes sounds scary but the file sequences thread swaps to minimise how often you're digging through the colour box. Use a cutaway stabiliser on anything you hoop because the density on the beard sections and the tatami fill on the body needs solid backing. Hoop your camo fabric or canvas tight, check tension on a scrap piece first because camo twill has a weave that can shift under the needle if your stabiliser isnt fully fused. Topping on fleece if youre doing a hunting jacket panel.

Stitch on brown canvas, camouflage twill, hunter orange cotton, or khaki twill and the 18 colours work with the base fabric rather than against it. Customise the background to match what your customer actually wears in the field. Skip white or cream fabric where the cream beard sections wont read and the design just doesnt land.