The Gnome can be made in any colors you wish. The hat can be plain or striped. Use your imagination!
First, cut out the pieces. You need to cut three different shapes for the Gnome.
Stitch the beard first on the front and the hair on the back. On the front, then stitch the eyes, then the skin. The nose is a French knot with the yarn twisted four times around the needle. Stitch the hat last on both back and front.
The base is stitched in the beard color.
Stitch the front and back together before stitching the base to them. I do one stitch at each side of the front in the beard color. I take a piece of beard color yarn through the space and knot it and weave in the ends. If that is too fiddly, just do that stitch in hat color.
After your Gnome is finished, squeeze his cheeks several times. That will make his hat look more rounded.
