How I Made My St Patricks Gnome

I love Gnomes, but I do not have one for my St Patricks Day decor! So I gathered some of my supplies and in about 15 minutes I have this cute little shelf sitter!

Supplies I Used for my St Patricks Gnomes

Paper Mache Cone: I used a 12″ tall cone
White Faux Fur
Adult sized socks: I had unused St Patricks socks I purchased from Dollar Tree last year
Wood Beads
Optional: St Patrick picks and ribbon or fabric. I found my Shamrock picks at Dollar Tree and used ribbon and fabric I had on hand.
Hot glue and glue gun
Scissors

ASSEMBLING MY ST PATRICK GNOMES

Now to be honest, I wasn’t sure how I was going to craft my Gnomes.

Once I had my supplies gathered, I realized the fur fabric I had picked out was not going to wrap all the way around the bottom third of my paper mache cone.

I cut my sock so I had the long part, the part that goes over the calf in once piece, for my Gnomes hat.

Then I cut and disassembled the foot part of the sock for the backside of my Gnome.

I cut the toes section off, and then I cut the other side so this part of the sock was a rectangle shape.

It might be easier for you to check my video below to see how I did this!

Then I grabbed my favorite glue gun and glued the rectangle piece to the bottom third part of the cone.

This will be the backside.

Next I roughly measured my faux fur and started cutting the fur from the backside.

Cutting the faux fur from the back is a little less messy and you’re not cutting most of the fur that we are wanting for our gnome.

Then I hot glued the fur onto my Gnome, over lapping the sock fabric.

Next I placed the long part of the sock on my Gnomes “head”.

But before I did, I cut off the black end of the sock, since I didn’t really want that showing.

I kind of wish I left that alone, so I added some fabric ribbon over this area so the rough edges of the sock were hidden.

And it actually looks cute!

NOW I ADDED MY NOSE!

I parted the fur in the middle, the best I could, added some hot glue and placed my wood nose in the middle of the parted area.

I cute three small rectangle faux fur for eyebrows and mustache.

This step isn’t really necessary but I wanted to add a little more hair in these areas.

Next I added some fabric strips, leftover from my Messy Bows supplies and tied the top of my Gnomes hat.

For the final embellishment, I grabbed a Shamrock pick from a package I bought from Dollar Tree.

I broke off part of the pick, found a spot where I wanted to hot glue the pick, and also added a little more where I wanted the Shamrock to stay, up by the hat and that was it!