Mummy Gnome Embroidery Design, Halloween Gnome Machine Embroidery Pattern, Instant Download

Gnome designs sell all year but the halloween versions get the most repeat buyers, and this mummy gnome is the one I get messages about most. Theres something about the wrapped bandages on that tall pointy hat that people find really endearing. The design comes in at 34938 stitches across 8 colours in a 2.91 by 4.5 inch frame, the taller height is intentional because the gnome silhouette needs that vertical space for the hat tip. At a density of 414, the directional satin on the bandage wrapping gives you that overlapping cloth look without needing extra colours to suggest the texture.

Use a cutaway stabiliser. This is a dense piece at 414, and the gnome body is mostly vertical satin columns that will pull on anything stretchy if you use a tearaway. On woven fabrics like cotton canvas or denim, a sew-in cutaway works well, and on knits or fleece you want a no-show mesh cutaway so the back stays clean. Text the design to yourself, I mean plan the fabric colour first, because the off-white bandage tones are the main body and they read best against dark or mid-tone backgrounds. On cream or white fabric you lose the bandage detail entirely.

Stitch the hat first in the digitising sequence, then the bandage body, then the peering eye and shadow accents. The Wilcom sequence is set up so the loose bandage ends on the hat trail over that wrapped torso, dont reorder those stops or the layering reverses. I had a customer who ran this last october on a set of halloween throw pillowcases in dark charcoal fabric and she said the eight-colour result looked like it had twelve because the fill angle was doing the shading work. Pick a thread brand that does solid coverage on that cream-white bandage colour or the tones go blotchy. Text me a quick note if you want the bandage colour swapped for a different tone and Ill prep it.

Add it to a trick-or-treat bag, a halloween apron, or a pillowcase and people will ask ya where you got the pattern. Text me if the eye detail stop isnt sitting right, on some machines the small satin patch for the eye needs a tension nudge to keep it from puckering.