Fast, fun, adorable!
My challenge – to make the very small gnomes people have been asking for while keeping the process simple. Little things can be fiddly!
And so Gnoah, Gnaomi, and Gnibblet were born. The simplest gnomes I’ve designed. They still have the essential gnomish features while having streamlined construction. They’re knit top-down with the body and hat knit as one piece – no picking up stitches. The noses are knit as part of the beards for Gnoah and Gnaomi. Gnibblet is so wee that duplicate stitch and a French knot are used – video tutorial included.
Instructions are included to make Gnaomi an ornament rather than being able to stand on her own. Gnibblet is written to hang – specifically hang as earrings because while knitting Gnaomi I was seized by an urge to have gnome earrings. (Aren’t we all?)
Skills Used
•knit and purl
•working in the round on DPNs
•i-cord
•kfb
•k2tog, ssk
Notions
yarn needle, removable stitch marker, approx. 1/8 C poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans, fist-sized amount of roving/polyfill stuffing
Sizes
Gnoah (Cylinder-Shaped) Worsted: Height 5” / 12.5 cm
Gnoah (Cylinder-Shaped) Fingering: Height 3” / 7.5 cm
Gnaomi (Ball-Shaped) Worsted: 4.25” / 11 cm (hat unbent)
Gnaomi (Ball-Shaped) Fingering: 3”/ 7.5 cm (hat unbent)
Gnibblet (Tiniest Gnome) Worsted: Height 2.5” / 6 cm
Gnibblet (Tiniest Gnome) Fingering: Height 1.5” / 4 cm
Worsted Yardage (with a buffer)
Gnoah and Gnaomi:
Colour 1 (Hat): 16 yd. / 15 m; 8 g
Colour 2 (Body): 18 yd. / 17 m; 9 g
Colour 3 (beard/nose/hands): 7 yd. / 6 m; 3 g
Gnibblet:
Colour 1 (Hat): 5 yd. / 4 m; 2 g
Colour 2 (Body): 5 yd. / 4 m; 2 g
Colour 3 (beard/nose/hands): 1 yd. / 1 m; 1 g
Fingering Weight Yardage (with a buffer)
Gnoah and Gnomi
Colour 1 (Hat): 17 yd. / 15 m; 4 g
Colour 2 (Body): 17 yd. / 15 m; 4 g
Colour 3 (beard/nose/hands): 8 yd. / 7 m; 2 g
Gnibblet
Colour 1 (Hat): 3 yd. / 2.5 m; 2 g
Colour 2 (Body): 3 yd. / 2.5 m; 2 g
Colour 3 (beard/nose/hands): 1 yd. / 1 m; 1 g
Pattern has been tech edited and test knit.