Gnomes, of the knitted variety

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While I quite like your hustomtar one question, they all seem to have very prominent noses but somewhat missing eyes?
I think it's partly because the designer has made it one of her trademark design features, partly because it's very hard to get eyes to look right and very easy to get it wrong.
 
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Oh, I like the green one :)
Thanks! I just finished that one tonight. It was really fast since the yarn was held double throughout. The colours are much better in daylight and although I wasn’t too sure about the colour combinations to start with, I quite like how it turned out.
 
Where do you have the room to live in your house? The place must be filled with tomtar. :)
Hehe, they’re actually fairly small and so far only taking up part of the mantelpiece. I think after this Christmas, I’ll pack some of them away and just leave a few out at a time.
 
theyre awesome, theres a group (i assume) in the local villages who knit hats for the royal mail letter boxes, they have little charecters on and scenes. its nice to see them dotted about.
locals get quite upset when they disapear.. (and I dont blame them)
 
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Absolutely love these little fellas.
Do you knit them in the round on sock kneedles?
I'm going to have a go at designing and making a little chap myself.
I've just adapted some little knitted "dude" dolls, (a simple knitted oblong, colour changes for shoes, trousers, tops, face and hat, sewn into a tube and features embroidered on) into soldiers for an xmas present for a little chap I know.
 
Absolutely love these little fellas.
Do you knit them in the round on sock kneedles?
I'm going to have a go at designing and making a little chap myself.
I've just adapted some little knitted "dude" dolls, (a simple knitted oblong, colour changes for shoes, trousers, tops, face and hat, sewn into a tube and features embroidered on) into soldiers for an xmas present for a little chap I know.
They are rather cute, aren’t they? :)

I wasn’t setting out to buy so many of Sarah’s patterns (https://www.imaginedlandscapes.com/design-gallery/gnomes/) but I think they are both cleverly thought-out and fun to make, so why not. If any one’s interested they are only $8 CAD (so about £4.80) and on Ravelry they’re available as buy 4 - get the 4th one free.

The basic design is to cast on for the brim, knitting in the round and making decreases to form the hat, then pick up stitches on the inside just above the brim and knit the body down as it were, stuff and close up with a set of decreases that make what I think of as pinwheel to make the base. Arms made out of i-cord as well as the nose and beard are made separately and sown onto the body.

Most of mine are knitted using light fingering or fingering weight yarn (so 3 or 4-ply) and short 15 cm DPNs (2.25-2.50 mm). I started out on my ordinary 20 cm long DPNs that I use for socks, but it was a bit too unwieldy.
 
Have they all got gnomes to go to?
Haha, well this latest one is staying here with Dad and the one before that is a Christmas present for my brother. Most of the others are hanging out on our mantle piece for the time being. I’m planning on a few more, but I’m not going to be making one a month next year, that’s for sure. I’ve got too many other projects planned.
 
Latest gnome was an advent MKAL (mystery knit-a-long) with an "underhat" and three different hats to choose from.
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Colours are a bit off because of the lighting, so a bit more cheerful in real life.
 
I’ve not done much knitting since last spring, but I did manage another MKAL (mystery knit-a-long) gnome (well two actually - a gnome and a “sgnome-man”) after Christmas:
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This isn’t knitted but is apparently inspired by me! It’s made by my youngest’s bff @ Hollyheartfelt. She is an inspired felter.
 

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