✔ This pattern is test knit
✔ This pattern is tech edited
Savour the Gnoment
Like so many of us, Gnarina likes to knit her travels into her projects. Her trip to Churchill, Manitoba, to see the Gnorthern Lights thrilled her to her very core (as well as chilled her to her very core)! She’s busy knitting the last piece of an outfit inspired by those dancing lights and starry skies. Will she be done in time to show off at the next knit night?
I've wanted to design a gnome knitting their own hat for a long time, and this project makes me so happy.
Gnomes are great learning projects for new skills, so jump in if this is your first stranded colourwork project! There are plenty of helpful video tutorials included. And mistakes are no big deal: Wonkiness is gnominess, after all.
Many tutorial videos provided. Also, check out the Gnome Schooling tutorials for all sorts of important tips and help with your gnoming needs!
Materials
- Fingering Weight Yarn
Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply Toes (100% merino); 133 yd / 122 m per 38 g skein; colours shown:
Yarn A Starless
Yarn B Squall
Yarn C Ice Cave
Yarn D Snow Leopard
•Needles
US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm needles for knitting small circumference in the round, or size
needed to get gauge
US 5 / 3.75 mm needles for knitting flat (shawl)
•Notions
small wooden pins/toothpicks to use as knitting needles, waste yarn/locking stitch marker, yarn needle, stitch markers, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans
Skills Used
- knit and purl
- working in the round
- stranded colourwork
- i-cord
- grafting
- kfb-M
- M1L
- M1R
- yo
- k2tog
- ssk-M
- CDD
Appx. Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
Yarn A: 84 yd. / 77 m (24 g)
Yarn B: 119 yd. / 109 m (34 g)
Yarn C: 59 yd. / 54 m (17 g)
Yarn D: 32 yd. / 29 m (9 g)
