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Like so many of us, Gnarina likes to knit her travels into her projects. Her trip to Churchill, Manitoba, to see the Gnorthern Lights thrilled her to her very core (as well as chilled her to her very core)! She’s busy knitting the last piece of an outfit inspired by those dancing lights and starry skies. Will she be done in time to show off at the next knit night?

I’ve wanted to design a gnome knitting their own hat for a long time, and I’m so excited Gnarina is bringing this idea to life.

Skills Used
•knit and purl
•working in the round
•stranded colourwork
•I-cord
•grafting
•kfb-M, M1L, M1R, yo
•k2tog, ssk-M, CDD
Multiple video tutorials including assembly are included in the pattern.

Materials
Fingering WeightYarn
Miss Babs Yummy 2-Ply Toes (100% merino); 133 yd / 122 m per 38g skein; colours shown:
Yarn A Starless
Yarn B Squall
Yarn C Ice Cave
Yarn D Snow Leopard

Approximate Yardage
(with a 15% buffer)
Yarn A: 84 yd. / 77 m (24 g)
Yarn B: 119 yd. / 109 m (34 g)
Yarn C: 59 yd. / 54 m (17 g)
Yarn D: 32 yd. / 29 m (9 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

US 5 / 3.75 mm needles for knitting flat (shawl)

•Notions
small wooden pins/toothpicks to use as knitting needles, waste yarn/locking stitch marker, yarn needle, stitch markers, roving/polyfill stuffing, weighted stuffing like poly pellets/aquarium gravel/dried beans

Size
Height: 10.5” / 26.5 cm
Bottom Circumference: 12” / 30.5 cm

Gauge
28 sts and 44 rounds = 4” / 10 cm in stockinette in the round on smallest needles

This pattern is tech edited and test knit.