How to make a Christmas Gnome!

What You Will Learn?

• I encourage you to create a Christmas Gnome on your own. It can become a great handmade Christmas decoration for your home or a present for your loved ones..
• In this workshop, I am going to show you how easy to make a Christmas gnome size of 14 to 11 cm (approximately). I will guide you through the whole process and we will make it together. You can take the class even together with your kids, parents, siblings, or friends - simply spending time all together, making cute things for your Christmas..
• Handmade items always been representing love and care. Everyone who receives some feels loved. Something that has been created just for them fulfills the receiver with joy. Handmade items are unique as they never are the same, even if made after some prescription..
• In times when I grow up, we didn´t have fancy toys like nowadays kids are having. Even the toys, which were available, were too expensive to buy. Same as decorations for Christmas. So, we always made things by ourselves. That made me to become creative and try out many different handicrafts. I´ve been making presents, postcards, Christmas decorations, knitted & crotchet items, and sewing things starting from wimple towels for the home up to more complicated things, like clothes, for example. I have had also a company where I made Fabric books for little babies..
• After this workshop, you will be able to make a Christmas Gnome on your own. If you would like to be even more creative, you will be able to use the pattern of making the gnome to make any other type of doll, animal, etc..
• Who This Class is For:.
• This workshop will be valuable for anyone who has the most basic sewing skills. As I mentioned above, you can share the workshop together with your family or friends, and involve even kids in the workshop. Smartly planning which part of the gnome-making process the kid can manage to accomplish according to his age..
• Materials for the class: .
• To make our Gnome you will need:.
•    Sintepon:.
• One piece 10 x 10 centimeters..
• Two pieces 2,5 x 5 centimeters..
• One piece 2 x 8 centimeters..
• Sintepon can be replaced also with cotton wool, or anything that can be used as a fluffy filling..
•    White cotton fabric:.
• 20 x 22 centimeters – one piece..
• 10 x 5 centimeters – two pieces..
•     Red cotton fabric:.
• 13 x 15 centimeters – one piece..
• 22 x 13 centimeters – one piece..
• For this piece could be perfect if you could choose the fabric with a “selvage” edge on one of the sides of 13 cm..
• Thread: white, blue, and red..
• Sewing tape measure..
• Some needles for sewing..
• Wooden stick – or something similar - thin and tall, but not sharp..
• Scissors..
• Sewing machine if you have one (if you do not have or do not know how to use it, you still will be able to sew necessary parts with the hand)..
• About 1 glass of rice..
• ---.
• Are you ready?.
• Let´s get started!.