Cute Watermelon Gnome Embroidery Design, Instant Download

The gnome is front and centre holding a fat watermelon slice at chest height, that big round belly peeking out below a long white beard. The hat is the real statement though, its a tall floppy cone striped in red, orange, yellow, cyan and more, basically a rainbow that decided to become a hat. Tiny little shoes in mustard yellow poke out at the bottom, little round nose, no eyes visible because the hat and beard take up most of the face. Classic gnome energy.

Around him theres a whole scene going on. Green stems and leaves shoot up on both sides, with small daisy-like outline flowers dotted in between. A yellow-winged butterfly hovers on the left and a cyan-winged one on the right, both done with satin fill and a black body centre line. The ground is a strip of short green grass stitching. Its 11 colours to do all this and my embroidery software handled the digitising so the transitions between the hat stripes are actually clean.

I made this one for the summer kitchen towel crowd and the gnome-collectors, because honestly theres a massive overlap. People have been buying it for craft fair tote bags, market aprons and those chunky wooden-framed gift hoops you see at garden centres. A customer wrote me last week saying she stitched the 8.5-inch on a linen tablecloth runner and it looked like it came from a boutique shop.

Stitch sizes run from 5.5 inches at the smallest up to 8.5 inches at the largest, with 7 total options. Stitch counts go from 30,458 to 48,320 so this is a medium-dense file. Drop polymesh under woven linen or cotton canvas, those rainbow stripes need firm backing to stay crisp. Avoid thin jersey here, the density is gonna press through. Cream, natural or white linen backgrounds are the sweet spot.

Pair it with a solid-colour border embroidery around a tea towel edge and it becomes a proper kitchen gift set. Send me a note if you need a version without the butterflies and I can see what I can do.