Add some adorable Valentine’s Day decor with a pair of sweet no-sew hanging gnomes this year following this simple project idea using felt sheets, yarn and of a wooden bead.
Crafting Valentine’s Day Gnomes
As silly as they are, I love displaying decorative gnomes in my home thoughout the year. They are fun, playful and just make me smile as I pass by them. And since I enjoy my Winter-themed gnomes and so much, I thought why not make a pair for Valentine’s Day?
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Materials Needed:
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- And wool or acrylic yarn, medium thickness, 2-tone
- Felt Sheet in color of your choosing (we used dark grey, hot pink and ecru)
- Fabric Scissors
- Twine, 3mm (or ribbon, selvedge, etc for the hanging loop at the top of the hat)
- Wood ball (or bead), solid unfinished, ¾” diameter
- Printable Gnome Hat pattern
- Hot glue gun with clear glue sticks
- Thread and needle (for making the blanket stitch around the felt heart)
- Polyester batting
- Decorative bow
How to Make Gnomes for Valentine’s Day
To make these sweet little gnomes, I followed the same initial steps as these no-sew gnome ornaments I made last year EXCEPT for these minor differences:
- Since ‘m using a thinner yarn and additionally, I want a longer gnome beard, I wrapped the yarn around a large coffee tin (instead of my hand) and I also wrapped the yarn 100 times (instead of just 50).
So when you go to make your gnoms, consider the thickness of the yarn and wrap the yarn accordingly. You could always wrap more afterwards if you need to.
Once the gnome is assembled according to the gnome ornament instructions it’s time to decorate him! Cut out two identical sized hearts in felt out of any color of your choosing. I used a combination of dark grey, hot pink and light ecru.
Join the two heart shapes with a simple blanket stitch along the outer edges and just before closing it up, fill the heart with a bit of polyester batting. If you’re not sure how to do a blanket stitch, you can simply glue the outer edges together or follow along to this YouTube tutorial.
Layer on some more felt hearts and then glue a smaller decorative bow in the center.
Place and glue the heart on to the gnomes hat either in the center of slightly off center as with the pink gnome.
Hang the finished gnomes on the wall or on a door knob to enjoy for Valentine’s Day. I couldn’t help but lay my little gnomes on top of my “home sweet home” framed art for some fun play on words. Now that these are ready for Valentine’s Day, I’m inspired to make a Spring themed gnome craft too!
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More Gnome Crafting Ideas
We have plenty of DIY gnome decor crafts on the blog so be sure to check out these other ideas if you’re like me and enjoy this latest craft trend.
- DIY evergreen gnome
- Mini Fall themed gnome
- Embellishing a wine bag with a Gnome SVG
- hanging gnome ornaments for Winter
- felt gnome ornaments (post coming soon, pattern available in our Etsy shop here)
DIY Porch Gnome Planter 
Fall Gnome 
Wine Bag with Iron On Gnome 
Christmas Gnome Ornaments 
Felt Gnome Ornaments
Happy Valentine’s Day, friends!
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Making Sweetheart Gnomes for Valentine’s Day
Materials
- And wool or acrylic yarn medium thickness, 2-tone
- Felt Sheet in color of your choosing we used dark grey, hot pink and ecru
- Fabric Scissors
- Twine 3mm (or ribbon, selvedge, etc for the hanging loop at the top of the hat)
- Wood ball or bead, solid unfinished, ¾” diameter
- Printable Gnome Hat pattern
- Hot glue gun with clear glue sticks
- Thread and needle for making the blanket stitch around the felt heart
- Polyester batting
- Decorative bow
- Large coffee tin
Instructions
- Take one end of the yarn and begin wrapping it loosely around a large coffee tin, approximately 100 times.
- Cut a 5” long strand and secure that around the wrapped yarn, removing from the coffee tin
- Tie the strand into a tight knot around the wrapped yarn.
- Cut the yarn loops to form pom-pom.
- Paint the surface of the wood circles in gold paint.
- Print out the gnome hat pattern. Place the pattern on top of the felt sheet and cut along the solid line.
- Wrap the felt into a cone-shaped gnome hat using a wooden dowel (or pencil) to help wrap the felt around leaving a small opening at the cone tip.
- Glue the overlapping edges of the felt cone-shaped hat to hold in place.
- Cut a piece of twine 20” long and fold in half.
- Tie the cut ends of the twine around the pom-pom.
- Thread the looped end of the twine through the hole at the top of the hat.
- Pull on the twine loop to force the hat on top of the pom-pom.
- Glue one wood ball to the bottom edge of the hat. Glue two painted wood circles onto the front of the hat.
- Trim any really long and uneven yarn ends.
Decorating
- Cut out two identical sized hearts in felt out of any color of your choosing. I used a combination of dark grey, hot pink and light ecru.
- Join the two heart shapes with a simple blanket stitch along the outer edges and just before closing it up, fill the heart with a bit of polyester batting.
- Layer on some more felt hearts and then glue a smaller decorative bow in the center.
- Place and glue the heart on to the gnomes hat either in the center of slightly off center.