Kitchen Chef Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Stocky little gnome with an oversized cooking pot flipped upside down on his head like a hat, ladle in one hand, wearing a short apron over a round belly. Feet barely visible at the bottom in tiny gnome boots. Its 6 colours: the inverted pot is a warm red with a cream lid knob on top, the apron is cream white with a forest green trim line, the gnome body is tan brown, the ladle handle is mustard yellow and the outline and boot details are charcoal. The whole thing is wider than tall because of that enormous hat-to-body ratio, which is kinda the entire joke.

Five sizes from 3.01 to 7.01 inches wide, heights from 2.47 to 5.75 inches. Stitch count runs 10,859 at the 3-inch size up to 34,487 at the 7-inch. The smaller sizes come out surprisingly clean given how many colour zones compress into a small footprint. Wilcom handled the apron fold lines and boot shading in tight satin columns, which keeps the character reading as dimensional even at the 3-inch version. Ive run the mid sizes on cotton apron canvas and they hold well.

A customer messaged me last winter asking if the gnome would work on a set of red oven mitts for a christmas gift for her sister. She wanted the smallest size to fit on the back panel without overlapping the seam. It did, and she sent back a photo that made me genuinely happy to see. Kitchen gnomes on oven mitts are underrated honestly.

Run the large version on a cotton canvas apron as the main kitchen gift. Stitch the 4-inch size on a kitchen tea towel for a coordinated set. Pop the small version on an oven mitt back panel as a personalised kitchen accessory. Run cutaway under the heavy fills on canvas and a tearaway on stable wovens. Avoid white base fabric, the cream apron area blends in and you lose the character shape entirely.

The red hat fill area is the densest colour zone so hoop carefully and check tension before that pass. Satin columns on the boots and ladle handle are fine work, ease the speed there. Dont rush the charcoal outline pass either, thats what gives the face its expression and it needs clean register to read well.