Santa Gnome

A crochet Santa gnome – it had to happen. All year, I have been making crochet cork gnomes and sharing my ideas with you. So with Christmas being the most gnomy of holidays, a Christmas themed gnome was on the cards. And who better than the big man himself? This Santa gnome uses up scrap yarn, can be made very quickly and will be a cute table decoration or even a tree hanger for the festive season.

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Materials

Stylecraft Special DK in Lipstick – small amount

Stylecraft Eskimo in Winter White – very small amount

2.5 mm hook

Cork (approx 4.5 cm tall and 3 cm wide) – If you don’t have a spare cork lying around you can buy a pack of recycled corks or make this cute little amigurumi cork.

You can purchase yarn and accessories at lovecrochet. (Using these links does not cost you any extra but I will earn a small commission that will help me keep posting free patterns).

Pattern notes

The pattern is written using UK terminology, for a conversion chart to US terminology click this link.

Special stiches

dec – decrease dc over two stitches

Magic circle

Instructions

Body

Foundation row: Using red. Chain 16 and join with a slip stitch.

Round 1: 1 dc in every stitch around and join with slip stitch. (16)

Rounds 2 to 6: 1 dc in every stitch around and join with slip stitch. Fasten off on round 6. (16)

Hat

Foundation row: Using red, chain 20 and join with a slip stitch.

Round 1: 1 dc into every chain. (20)

Rounds 2 and 3: 1 dc into every stitch. (20)

Round 4: 3 dc, 1 dec. Repeat 3 more times. (16)

Rounds 5 and 6: 1 dc into every stitch. (16)

Round 7: 2 dc, 1 dec. Repeat 3 more times. (12)

Round 8: 1 dec. Repeat 5 more times. (6)

Rounds 9 to 11: 1 dc into every stitch. (6)

From round 12 onwards: dec until the point of the hat has formed. Fasten off.

Trim

You will be working from the bottom of the hat.

Round 1: Using lash yarn, dc, chain 1 around the botton of the hard.

Round 2: dc into ch-1-sp, chain 1, miss one, dc into nect ch-1-space around.

If you want to make more cork gnomes, please check out my other free gnome patterns.

As with all my free patterns please feel free to make and sell the crochet items, however, please credit me as the designer where possible and do not sell the pattern itself.

If you have enjoyed making this Santa Gnome, please tag your project with #CROCHETCLOUDBERRY on facebook or instagram, or add your project to raverly. This pattern has featured in the Oombawka Wednesday links. If you are interested in other home made ornaments, you can check out the directory at FaveCrafts.