✔ This pattern is test knit
✔ This pattern is tech edited
Gnandad's Grand Adventure
Gnandad, aka Gnorland Gnackwell, is a gnome of many hobbies. A quilter, a photographer, a skier, and now a traveller. He features a slipped stitch pattern mimicking embroidery for his fancy, festive holiday clothes. You never use more than one colour per round. An Estonian braid serves as his belt.
Along with the pattern, you also have access to the Extras file (recipes, colouring page, bookmarks, code for free cowl pattern) and the Storybook file.
Gauge
30 sts and 44 rounds = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette stitch in the round on smaller needles
Size
Height: 11” / 28 cm
Circumference at bottom: 9.5” / 24 cm
Materials
•Fingering Weight Yarn
4 mini skeins Little Squirrel Yarn Oak Sock Acorns (75% superwash merino, 25% recycled nylon); 87 yd. / 80 m per 20 g skein; colours shown:
colours shown:
C1 Petrol
C2 Tinsel
C3 Marshmallow
C4 Flint
•Needles
US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm for working small circumference in the round
•Notions
wooden skis approx. 6” by 0.5”- 0.75” / 15 cm by 1.5-2 cm wide or popsicle stick/craft stick (optional), 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
- slipping sts purlwise
- i-cord
- kfb
- RLI
- LLI
- k2tog
- ssk
- Estonian braid
- 3-needle bind off
Appx. Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
C1 - 57 yd. / 52 m (13 g)
C2 - 57 yd. / 52 m (13 g)
C3 - 35 yd. / 32 m (8 g)
C4 - 39 yd. / 36 m (9 g)
