✔ This pattern is test knit
✔ This pattern is tech edited
Nice to Gnome You
Summertime and the knitting is easy…
A gnome of the gnorthern reaches, Gnicki loves laughing in the midnight sun with friends. She’s easy-going, like a gentle summer breeze that cools you at just the right moment. Come on over – she’s started a campfire and has all the ingredients for s’mores tucked in her pocket at all times.
Many tutorial videos provided. Also, check out the Gnome Schooling tutorials for all sorts of important tips and help with your gnoming needs!
The pattern is written for 4 colours, but Gnicki is a pattern to play with – use 2 colours held throughout, use scraps of leftovers and just swap the colours as you run out, play with self-striping and solids, etc.
Materials
•Yarn
4 mini skeins Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper (75% merino, 25% nylon); 92 yd / 84 m per 20 g skein; colours shown:
C1: Moonlight
C2: Koi Pond
C3: Poseidon
C4: Green Gables
Fingering weight held double (or DK – note that substituting DK will mean that the yardage amounts are different even though you can use the same needles)
•Needles
US 3 / 3.25 mm needles for working in the round (or size needed to get gauge), and smaller needles for picking up sts, e.g., US 1 / 2.25 mm
•Notions
yarn needle, 1 removable stitch marker (optional), a beginning of round marker, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans
Skills Used
- working in the round
- k2tog
- ssk
- CDD
- p3tog
- kfb
- M1L
- M1R
- i-cord
- cabling
- slipping sts
- picking up sts
- wrap and turn
Appx. Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
C1: 79 yd. / 72 m, approximately 17 g
C2: 70 yd. / 64 m, approximately 15 g
C3: 70 yd. / 64 m, approximately 15 g
C4: 70 yd. / 64 m, approximately 15 g
Size
one size: Height: 10.75” / 27.5 cm; Bottom Circumference: 11” / 28 cm