• 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.