Cute School Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Three gnomes lined up shoulder to shoulder, each one clutching a book to their chest like they cant wait to start reading. Left gnome wears a tall red hat that curves at the tip, holds a green book. Centre gnome has the orange hat, holds an orange book. Right gnome, red hat again, holds a blue book. They all got the same round pink button nose, thick fluffy white beard, tiny eyes barely visible over the beard line, and the grey shoes poking out the bottom. No face apart from the nose, thats classic gnome design language and it works perfectly here.

Twenty colours, 19 thread swaps, and at the largest hoop size this hits 82k stitches which is honestly the most complex back-to-school design Ive done. The hat shading is done in a dense crosshatch that gives the red and orange a proper textured felt look rather than flat satin. The beards use a looser tatami fill with a directional angle that reads as fluffy when stitched.

Email me if you get a thread break on the beard section, it can happen on older machines when the density shifts from the tight hat fill to the softer beard fill. Im happy to split it into a 2-run file if thats easier for your setup.

Best on white, cream, oatmeal or black cotton. The primary-colour books need a neutral background to pop. I been stocking this one since august and I get messages from teachers and school librarians nearly every week, mostly for personalised tote bags and classroom aprons. Stitch the 3.5 micro on a pencil case or the bigger sizes on a canvas shopper.

Pair with a crisp cutaway behind on woven and a firm cutaway on jersey. Hoop very flat, the gnome bodies are tall and narrow and any distortion will show in the beard alignment. Email me a photo of the stitch-out if the beard underlay needs a tweak and I wIll rework the punch fastly before the fill runs on top.