This intarsia gingerbread needed the embroidered icing outline to give him better definition. I would design him differently if I were doing it again. He’d be smaller for sure, but I might even just knit a gingerbread man shape, instead of a square with a picture of a gingerbread man in it.
Since the paragraph above was posted in 2005, I have been thinking about releasing these patterns again. The gingerbread person will definitely get a redesign.