It’s time for the family to visit Gnana for Longest Gnight! Or is it?
A perplexed Gnana arrives at the family’s empty cottage, ready to visit them. The pantry is empty, the house is dark, and Gnana will need to find a different way to celebrate Longest Gnight.

I love creating joy and anticipation during winter’s dark days. Preparing secrets for you makes me so happy. The December gnome countdown knitalong has become such a treasured part of the year!

It’s not too late to join! The knitalong is very gently paced.

How does it work?
You’ll get 21 updates during December from Dec 1-21. Some of those days you’ll open up the update to find a clue to knit. The other days will bring part of our charming story, special treats, or a recipe or two for traditional gnomish delights.

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

Key Dates
Nov 1: pattern presale & yarn kits from dyers around the world available
Dec 1-21: daily updates
Dec 21: entry form (for Instagram entries) and finished gnome thread (for Ravelry entries) open
Jan 1: last day to enter for a grand prize
Jan 3: prizes announced, clues integrated into a single pattern

PreKnitalong Chat is already happening! Join us here with your questions and to share your yarns.

Materials
•Fingering Weight Yarn
4 mini skeins Little Squirrel Yarn Oak Sock (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

•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

•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.

Gnana has been designed with small wire glasses that are approx. 1.5” / 35mm wide. The PreKnitalong PDF has a few sources for the wire glasses and more information for sourcing your own. Some dyers are providing these. If you preordered from The Loopy Ewe in August, you will receive glasses. If your Gnana doesn’t have glasses, she’ll look great. These aren’t essential.

Participating Dyers
Note: you are not required to use participating dyers’ yarn. You can source your gnome yarn however you like. Colour advice is available in the PreKnitalong Information PDF that you can download right now when you purchase the pattern.

Asia-Pacific

Mamawooling
Heathermaid
glenheavenknits

Canada

Timber Yarns
Ancient Arts Fibre Crafts

Europe

Wintertagtraum
Wolhobby
ScreamingColours
Alte Künste

UK

Giddy Yarns
Yarn Unique
LamingtonLass Yarns

USA

Marianated Yarns
MUSE2320 Fiber Co.
Kelli in the Middle
Miss Babs
Leading Men Fiber Arts
Emma’s Yarn
The Fiber Faerie
House Mountain Yarn Co.
Beautiful Syster

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.