✔ This pattern is test knit
✔ This pattern is tech edited
The More You Gnome
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Instructions for the mosaic stitch pattern are provided in written and charted form. Charts are also given with light/dark reversed as an option.
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 mini skeins Practically Perfect Smalls from Emma’s Yarn (80% merino, 20% nylon); 81 yd / 74 m per 20 g skein; colours shown:
C1 Whisper
C2 Volume
C3 Tealicious
•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
•Notions
yarn needle, removable stitch markers, scrap yarn, crochet hook, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans
Skills Used
- working in the round
- provisional cast-on
- grafting
- kfb
- M1R
- k2tog
- ssk
- CDD
- slipping sts
Appx. Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
C1: 51 yd. / 47 m (13 g)
C2: 75 yd. / 69 m (18 g)
C3: 75 yd. / 69 m (18 g)
Size
Height: 11” / 28 cm (9” / 23 cm without tassel)
Circumference: 10.75” / 27 cm