Well this little dude, that happens to be another of Alan Dart's 'Yuletide Gnomes', sat there (in a slightly more pulled together state...) with his pepper gray beard waiting for the new yarn to come... and waiting.... and waiting... until finally I started to like the pepper gray, my Grandmother came to visit (who was to be the recipient of this particular gnome), and my patience was worn, so out came the needle and thread and on went this beard permanently.

I went for a more woodsy look this time with the greens and tan, it seemed fitting since I was pairing him with a fall 'centerpiece' (if you can call it that) and wanted something earthy.

I like how he turned out, though I had intended to put on a long straight brown beard and ended up with a bushy pepper gray beard. By time I sewed him together he seemed pretty happy with his beard, so all is well (because not liking ones beard must be a terrible thing for a gnome).

This is the 'small' size gnome done on a size US3 needle and a double strand of a regia wool sock yarn and some recycled wool in tan for the boots and cream for the head. I like toys to be knit tight, and if they're knit real tight I'm less likely to need to line the boots before I fill them with the plastic pellets.

For those of you still looking for this pattern, I used Alan Dart's Yuletide Gnomes pattern out of the insert that came with a Christmas issue of Simply Knitting, they recently put up instructions for how to get your hands on this pattern here on their blog the exchange rate a couple weeks ago for US Dollars was almost double the British Pound, 1.8 to 1 or something like that... an internet search on it would be the fastest way to find the most current exchange rate.

Thanks to everybody who left comments on the last gnome I made! I think it broke a personal record for most comments received on a single post!

And I'll leave you now with a picture of the latest Gnome sitting among the toadstools...