Gnimble is a reporter for the local newspaper, “Gnome News Is Good News”. (And can’t we just agree that it is a marvellous fact that gnome news really is good news?) He enjoys talking to local sources (although gnomes call them friends), finding out the latest scoops (like “Little Gnipper eats triple-scoop pumpkin ice-cream cone!”), and writing articles.

Gnimble is a fun gnome designed to showcase bold yarns like self-striping and variegated colourways.

The body is knit flat using short-row shaping and then grafted together into a tube. The bottom of the body and the hat are picked up from the tube.

Skills Used
•knit and purl
•working in the round
•short rows
•provisional cast-on
•picking up sts
•grafting
•k2tog, ssk
•kfb, kfb-M, M1L, M1R, pfb

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Gauge
28 stitches and 44 rows = 10 cm in stockinette in the round on smaller needles

Materials
•Yarn
Woolens and Nosh “Gnome News is Good News” Self-Striping Kit (90/10 SW Targhee/Nylon) 164 yds. / 149 m per 40 g skein

colours shown:
C1 Daffodil - 1 skein (self-striping) 20 g
C2 Tender Shoots - 1 skein (yellow-green) 15 g
C3 Snowdrop - 1 skein (white) 5 g

Approximate Yardage
(with a 10% buffer)
C1: 70 yd. / 64 m (17 g)
C2: 56 yd. / 51 m (14 g)
C3: 17 yd. / 16 m (4 g).

•Needles  
US 1 / 2.25 mm and US 1.5 / 2.5 mm needles for knitting small circumference in the round, or size needed to get gauge.

Note: if you are using magic loop, you will need an extra needle for the grafting.

•Notions
yarn needle, removable stitch markers, scrap yarn, crochet hook, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans

NOTE: the crochet hook is only for the provisional cast-on. There is no crochet in this gnome. Also, you can do any provisional cast-on if you have a method you are already comfortable with.

This pattern has been tech edited and test knit.