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September Gnome

Anyway, I have always loved the back-to-school season: the cooler weather, the excitement of seeing my friends again after summer break, getting new pencils and notebooks and squeaky sneakers. And then it’s my birthday with all this fresh excitement in the air!

Here in Canada school usually starts up in the last week of August or the first week of September.

Farmers are trying to get their crops brought in from the fields before the snow comes and I think that might affect the timing of school. Historically, farm kids are workers. Family farms need everyone to pitch in and do their part.

I was very old before I learned that schools start at different times in other places – like, only this year I learned that some places start school in June! Seems very strange to me.

So, I tried to draw a back-to-school gnome. It did not go well. I will not show the disaster.

This harvest gnome is much better! He has his shiny apple and his hat has a leaf instead of a fluffy pom-pom. The background is sort of like the cross hatching on a woven basket in my mind, but perhaps it doesn’t need to look like anything to be a nice background.

Gnome Placement

I am not sure if you noticed, but the monthly gnomes are moving from the left side, to the middle, to the right side, then back to the middle. It looks pretty good when you put all the gnomes together. We only have a few more months to go before I will create that all-in-one blanket pattern!

Background Hashtags

I also made a pattern with just the background design because I think it would work nicely for a lot of things. Color choice could make this simple design match a lot of things. I crocheted it twice; once in wicker-basket-colors and once with a bit of POP!

I call it “Harvest Basket 40” (the “40” refers to how many windows you begin with when you use the interlocking crochet technique; it is the same size as these gnome squares).

September Gnome Details

Each of the three colorwork techniques comes with its own set of important details.

Interlocking crochet / LFM crochet file includes:

• line-by-line written pattern
• one-page chart

Details

• Chart is 81 x 81
• Gauge: 16 stitches x 8 rows = 4”
• 20″ x 20″ / 52cm x 52cm
• 4.5 mm hook (US7)
• Worsted weight yarn (485 yards total)
  • Main color (MC) (the gnome) – 230 yards plus 25 for optional border
  • Accent color (AC) (background) – 230 yards

Mosaic Crochet file includes:

• line-by-line written pattern
• instructions for optional envelope border
• instructions on reading a chart
• a four-page chart marked with X’s

Details

• Chart is 81 x 81
• Gauge: 16 sc blo stitches x 16 rows = 4”
• 20″ x 20″ / 252cm x 252cm
• 4.5 mm hook (US7)
• Worsted weight yarn (530 yards)
  • Main color (gnome) – 265 yards
  • Contrasting color (background) – 265  yards

Yarn Weight

I crocheted Harvest Basket using a fluffy 6 weight yarn and a thinner 4 weight yarn. The image shows up on both but the finished square is a different size (and of course the amount of yarn used is different as well.

Learn more about the Craft Yarn Council’s standardized yarn weight system.

Harvest Basket Details

The two colorwork techniques for Harvest Basket use the same chart.

Interlocking crochet / LFM crochet file includes:

• line-by-line written pattern
• one-page chart

Details

• Chart is 81 x 81
• Gauge: 16 stitches x 8 rows = 4”
• 20″ x 20″ / 52cm x 52cm
• 4.5 mm hook (US7)
• Worsted weight yarn (485 yards total)
  • Main color (MC) – 230 yards plus 25 for optional border
  • Accent color (AC) – 230 yards

When using the interlocking crochet method, the wrong side produces a new design! This fun box design makes this square reversible! Mosaic crochet will produce stripes on the back side.