✔ This pattern is test knit
✔ This pattern is tech edited
Choose Your Gnome Adventure
You get multiple options:
-5 hat options, 5 body options, 2 noses, 3 beards, and 2 arm designs!
-You get height, yardage, needle size, and gauge info for fingering, worsted, and bulky
-You get the choice of size of gnome (medium and large)
For those of you who have been yearning for a Very Big Gnome…I’ve heard you! Knit the Large Bulky Gnorton and you’ll be dazzling friends and relatives (and people across the street)! He’ll be e-gnome-ous.
Many tutorial videos provided. Also, check out the Gnome Schooling tutorials for all sorts of important tips and help with your gnoming needs!
Materials
•Yarn
3 colours of yarn in weight of choice - see Pg. 4 for colour tips
Fingering Weight: Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply (100% merino) 400 yd / 366 m per 110g
Worsted Weight: Miss Babs Intrepid (100% Targhee wool) 280 yd / 255 m per 115 g
Bulky Weight: Miss Babs K2 (100% merino), 240 yd / 219 m per 205 g
Colours shown: Kobold (red), Moonscape (grey), White Peppercorn (white)
•Needles
US 1 / 2.25 mm & US 2 / 2.75 mm
US 4 / 3.5 mm & US 6 / 4 mm
US 8 / 5 mm & US 10 / 6 mm
•Notions
yarn needle, removable stitch markers, a beginning of round marker, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans, fluffy stuffing like roving/polyfill stuffing, something to contain the weighted stuffing for worsted and bulky
Skills Used
- knit and purl
- working in the round
- kfb
- M1L
- M1R
- k2tog
- ssk
- slipping sts
- i-cord
Appx. Yardage
Fingering Weight
C1: 20g - 40g
C2: 20g - 40g
C3: 20g - 20g
Worsted Weight
C1: 50g - 100g
C2: 50g - 100g
C3: 50g - 50g
Bulky Weight
C1: 100g - 200g
C2: 100g - 200g
C3: 100g - 100g
Size
Medium (Large) see chart in photos for exact sizes by yarn weight