Yarn Gnome Garland

If you are looking for a quick and easy decoration to make for the holidays, you have found it! This adorable little gnome garland is so simple to make and is such a great decoration. You can also leave them on their own and set them around your house as little gnome friends!

Supplies:

• Toilet paper rolls
• Yarn
• Fiber-fil stuffing
• Hot glue gun
• Wood beads
• Twine or needle for stringing

Cutting

• Take the toilet paper roll and cut it into 1″ pieces.
• Cut approximately 15-30 pieces of yarn 12″ long. The number will vary depending on the thickness of your yarn.

Making the Gnome Hats

• Fold one string of yarn in half creating a loop.
• Put the loop through the center of the toilet paper so the loop is up and the two ends are down.
• Pull the two ends up and pull them through the loop.

• Repeat all the way around the toilet paper roll with all of the yarn strings.

• Make sure all ends of the yarn are pushed straight up.
• Cut one more piece of yarn and slide it under the ends of the yarn that are pushed up.
• Tie the yarn ends in a double knot just above the loop knots on the toilet paper tube.

• Cut off the strings to be the same length as the rest.
• Hold the little hat upside down and trim all of the strings to the same length to make a fluffy little pom pom for your gnome hat.

Stuffing the Hat and Making a Pom Pom

• Take a small amount of fiber-fil stuffing and put it inside the hat.
• Using white yarn, make a small pom pom for your gnome beard.
  • There are many ways to make a pom pom, you can see one method of wrapping the yarn around your hand in a previous blog post HERE.
• Repeat all steps for making hats and pom poms for all of your little gnome friends.

Glue and String

• Now that you have all of your gnome hats and pom pom beards ready, heat up your hot glue gun and run a ring of glue around the inside edge of the hat.
• Set the hat on top of your pom pom holding it in place until the glue is dry.

• Place a wood bead just between the hat and pom pom.
• With a dot of hot glue, attach the wood bead in place.
  • If you want to just have little gnomes around your house, you can stop here and set them all around. If you want to make them a garland, continue on!

• Thread your twine or string through an embroidery needle.
• Insert the needle through one side of the gnome’s hat just below the loop knots, pushing it through the other side directly across.
• Repeat the same until all of your gnomes are strung on the twine.

Hang up your cute gnome garland over a fireplace, across a window, or on your tree, and admire how cute they are!

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