Gnome News Is Good News

Gnimble is a reporter for the local newspaper, “Gnome News Is Good News”. (And can’t we just agree that it is a marvellous fact that gnome news really is good news?) He enjoys talking to local sources (although gnomes call them friends), finding out the latest scoops (like “Little Gnipper eats triple-scoop pumpkin ice-cream cone!”), and writing articles.

Gnimble is a fun gnome designed to showcase bold yarns like self-striping and variegated colourways.

The body is knit flat using short-row shaping and then grafted together into a tube. The bottom of the body and the hat are picked up from the tube.

**Skills Used**

•knit and purl 

•working in the round

•short rows

•provisional cast-on

•picking up sts

•grafting

•k2tog, ssk

•kfb, kfb-M, M1L, M1R, pfb

Do any of those make you stop believing in your skills? You know I’ve got the video tutorials to make you feel confident again!

Size

Height: 8.5” / 21.5 cm

Bottom Circumference: 10.5” / 26.5 cm

Gauge

28 stitches and 44 rows = 10 cm in stockinette in the round on smaller needles

Materials

•Yarn

Woolens and Nosh "Gnome News is Good News” Self-Striping Kit (90/10 SW Targhee/Nylon) 164 yds. / 149 m per 40 g skein

colours shown:

C1 Daffodil - 1 skein (self-striping) 20 g

C2 Tender Shoots - 1 skein (yellow-green) 15 g

C3 Snowdrop - 1 skein (white) 5 g

Approximate Yardage

(with a 10% buffer)

C1: 70 yd. / 64 m (17 g)

C2: 56 yd. / 51 m (14 g)

C3: 17 yd. / 16 m (4 g).

•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.

Note: if you are using magic loop, you will need an extra needle for the grafting.

•Notions

yarn needle, removable stitch markers, scrap yarn, crochet hook, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans

NOTE: the crochet hook is only for the provisional cast-on. There is no crochet in this gnome. Also, you can do any provisional cast-on if you have a method you are already comfortable with.

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.