Welcome again to some extra artful enjoyable! At present, we’re making an excellent duper cute and comfy Yarn Gnome Craft with the great Studio Rosie! Celebrating the launch of her implausible new e-book Fantasy Youngsters Crafts. Although these yarn-wrapped gnomes make great sweater gnomes within the Fall and Christmas season, I feel you should have enjoyable making these all yr spherical. Simply discover colour combos and extra particulars that you may to your craft (extra information beneath!). And you understand how a lot we love a Gnome Craft. Let’s discover out extra!
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About Studio Rosie and the Fantasy Child Crafts E-book
Studio Rosie – as a beautiful instagram account utilizing day by day supplies to make superbly enjoyable eco pleasant children crafts! Just lately, I really feel her work has been on hearth with probably the most attractive children’ crafts – another whimiscal than the following. So it’s no marvel, that she merely HAD to create this lovely Huge E-book of Fantasy Youngsters Crafts! If unicorns, dragons, fairies and gnomes are your factor.. you HAVE To take a look at this tremendous cute e-book. Impressed crafting, on a price range.
Seize your copy of The Huge E-book of Fantasy Youngsters Crafts right here as we speak!
Let’s make some cozy Sweater Gnomes
Gnomes spend most of their time exterior, so yours will want a heavy wool sweater to guard them from the weather. For Christmas one yr, Rose and I made ornaments by wrapping cardboard shapes with yarn and he or she had a lot enjoyable! Use this straightforward wrapping approach to provide your gnome a sensible and comfy wool sweater.
Provides wanted on your cozy Yarn-Wrapped Gnome Sweater
Makes 1 Yarn-Wrapped Gnome Sweater
- Cardboard
- Yarn scraps in quite a lot of colours
- Your FREE Gnome Templates (hat, sweater and boots in a single) – seize these right here – enter $0 at try!
- 1 sheet of white paper
- Crimson, pores and skin tone, and black acrylic paint
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Paintbrush
- Glue gun with glue sticks
Enter $0 at try for this free gnome template printable!
Learn how to make your Yarn Gnome Decoration Craft
Be aware: the free gnome printable has been designed for small arms to have enjoyable at practising their reducing expertise and having a go at yarn wrapping – i.e. they’re fairly giant! BUT.. you possibly can additionally print the gnome template out in “half dimension” (print two units per web page or cut back print dimension by 50%) to make some cute yarn gnome ornaments too! You possibly can all the time add a cheeky felt coronary heart or snowflake to your gnome and make it “extra seasonal”, if you want!
Minimize out your gnome templates onto cardboard and paper
Use scissors to chop out the YarnWrapped Gnome Sweater sweater template. Hint the template on a bit of cardboard with a pencil and lower out the template form from the cardboard.
Yarn Wrap your Gnome’s Sweater
Wrap the cardboard in yarn round all sides till a lot of the cardboard is roofed in yarn. Minimize the top of the yarn and tie the unfastened finish to a different a part of the yarn on the again. You possibly can wrap the yarn in numerous instructions. First a method. Then flip the gnome physique 90 levels and wrap one other means! You can even add little cuts to the facet of the physique and assist “catch” the yarn and cease it from slipping if you want!
Paint your Gnome’s hat, face and toes
Minimize out the Yarn-Wrapped Gnome Sweater face template and Yarn-Wrapped Gnome Sweater boots templates. Hint the templates on a bit of white paper with a pencil and lower out the template shapes.
With purple acrylic paint and a paintbrush, paint the gnome’s hat. Below the hat, paint an oval with pores and skin tone acrylic paint for the gnome’s nostril. Paint the gnome boots with black acrylic paint. Permit the paint to dry for at the least 1 hour.
Last gnome meeting
Use a glue gun to attach the gnome face onto the entrance of the gnome’s sweater on the high. Glue the 2 boots onto the again of the gnome’s sweater on the backside. Permit the glue to dry for at the least 60 seconds.
Your gnome is bound to be heat and cushty all through winter bundled up on this new sweater!
Credit score Line: Reprinted with permission from The Huge E-book of Fantasy Child Crafts by Jennifer Buchheit. Web page Road Publishing Co. 2025. Picture credit score: Jennifer Buchheit.
As metnioned.. you probably have some seasonal confetti, or paper gap punches, or you might be dab hand at reducing felt, you’ll be able to add enjoyable differences due to the season by including totally different particulars to your yarn gnome! E.g. some snowflake confetti to a blue hatted winter gnome, some leaf lower outs and pumpkin lower outs (constructed from paper or felt?) to a orange and inexperienced Fall Gnome and a few enjoyable hearts – be it confetti, paper or felt to make a Valentine’s Day Gnome!
One lovely craft by Studio Rosie, plenty of seasonal choices! Make sure you get her e-book as we speak.
Fancy extra Gnomes as we speak? Take a look at this superb assortment of DIY Gnome Crafts!
