Gnana's Visit

Don’t we all wish we could travel in style? This dramatic gnome has both a dressy cloak and body. Gnana features a few slipped stitch methods of mimicking embroidery for her fancy, festive holiday clothes. You never use more than one colour per round while you explore the power of slipping stitches with the yarn to the front and the back.

Along with the pattern, you also have access to the Extras file (recipe, colouring page, decorative envelope) and the Storybook file.

Languages: English and German

Skills Used

•knit and purl 

•working in the round and flat 

•i-cord 

•short row shaping 

•slipping sts 

•grafting 

•kfb, kfb-M, M1L, M1R, e-loop 

•k2tog, ssk 

There are a lot of tutorial videos included in the pattern for techniques and assembly.

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: 

C1 Raspberry Jam 

C2 Flint 

C3 Tinsel 

C4 Marshmallow

Approximate Yardage (with a 15% buffer) 

C1: 80 yd. / 73 m (19 g) 

C2: 69 yd. / 63 m (16 g) 

C3: 69 yd. / 63 m (16 g) 

C4: 23 yd. / 21 m (6 g)

•Needles  

US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm for working small circumference in the round AND US 2 / 2.75 mm needles for working flat. The largest needles will be used to knit flat and will need to accommodate a larger number of sts than would be comfortable on a 6” / 15 cm DPN.

•Notions 

wire glasses that are approx. 1.5” / 35 mm wide, yarn needle, removable stitch markers, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans.

Size 

Height: 8” / 20 cm 

Circumference at bottom: 9” / 23 cm

Gauge 

32 sts and 44 rounds = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette in the round on smallest needles

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.