St. Patrick's Day Gnome Tutorial

Hello, today we are going to make this cute st. It's St. Patrick's Day and they're out of leg warmers and this is actually an arm warmer and then I bought them on Amazon. I made the Swift yarn and this is part of a fuzzy sock, so let's get started, so the first thing we're going to do. What I do is take a sock. I just bought it at Dollar Tree and use it for most of my nose and started using poly pellets but find they are not heavy enough for the size. of

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s that I make, so I will try to experiment here if you make rice then it's okay, it's heavy enough, but when you don't, when you use the polyethylene pellets, it's not enough, so I'm going to try to put some of these rocks and right at the bottom, maybe three or four, we'll see how it turns out.

It's not an experiment, you can come with me during the trip so it's okay so I put here a trick to get the rice balls is to use one of these now it's exactly two cups which is great because I use just a little bit more two cups, but usually, but with the stones in I'll just use the two cups, so you just slide the sock on. right on top and you just push the Cubs into the sock and what you want to do is make it pretty tight and grab one of these little elastics that you didn't use last week is just to make it easier to put it in there. lightly, but you shouldn't just rely on them because they will disintegrate and break, which is why I always feel bad when people are making their

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s on YouTube and they don't, are there tricks to keep the rice balls from falling out? . but I didn't use them okay so here you have what the body is going to be and I'm filling in the background and it actually feels cool like you can't tell there are rocks there so that's cool now you can take thread or rotary floss that some people use as wire ties use several different things, I prefer floss just because I have a lot of it, you want to tie it super super tight and then you want to secure it with just a little bit of glue in the knot so we're pretty sure it's going to stay instead.

Now we simply cut off the excess. If we want more polyethylene balls, we will turn them over and see if there are any marks. It's not right, so now we want to give him some clothing for his body, so you can wear a sock and if you wear a sock, it has the toe built in and you can just lift it up and stick it on, but I chose these late leg warmers so they arrived on Amazon, so I'm going to have to be a little more creative than that and this also works when you have socks when you use part of the sock and you still have enough for a body but you don't have the toe.

There's a cool little trick you can do to make it particularly warmer. It looks the same inside and out, there's no difference, so if it didn't, I'd turn this around. That's the key and then you just do what you did with the top of the sock, except we would do this. talk, but you have to be a little careful to get it right and do like an accordion to fan it so everything stays in place and then you're going to secure it with the elastic and then we're going to secure that with thread again you might want to pull it so you don't waste a lot so that you can take out a little leftover or maybe it's not that it doesn't want to move because I would put it three times but in any case you get the idea, now let's turn it around, oh, I almost forgot the important part, Let's wrap it with some string and tie it as tight as we can.

Anyone wondering about this it's just a dollar tree and it's great for holding my glue sticks and pieces I'm going to use these things sometimes I use them sometimes I don't when I don't use them sometimes I regret it has my elastics in your you can just put things in there, I often put scissors in there and everything is fine, so now that it's done and it's glued still wet, it's not completely dry, which surprises me anyway, it's tight, so we turn it around this way and you will see the bottom. This will look like this and you can put your body on it and it looks like it's going to stick out, but it's actually not, if you just manipulate it and push it into the body, the body has enough flexibility to allow that. that going in and it's never been a problem for me so you just have to get it right so once you have this on and what you're going to want to do, you don't want to cover this completely. the top because you're going to have a hat and a beard and everything so I take it a little bit under this little one and then I turn around now we're going to go in with the edges in place and you want this to be tight, you don't want to not have it droopy at all, but you also don't want to tighten it too much, the next thing we're going to do is attach the nose, so for this one I'm using a 1 inch wooden ball and I think all of these products in the description you can choose to use these products that I bought on Amazon or something that you know suits your needs and your style.

Look, I'm going to choose where I want. the front is what you want to do when placing the nose, take here, the spine is going to be your hat and place it where you think it's going to go and then you want the nose to be right under it. On the front, I'm going to push it in a little bit so it has more surface area, the sticky surface sticks in there so it's nice and secure. Well, the next thing we're going to do is the beard now on this little guy. Cutie has a white beard but because he is st.

St. Patrick's Day and it's about beautiful Irish hair, red hair like this, very, very orange, so I hope I like it, it's pretty bright, but I'll try it and see how it turns out so everyone has different ways to cut the fur. You have to be very careful when cutting the fur because if you don't you'll end up with this really super choppy hard edge. I'm going to see a fake, I don't see, they cut it right, but sometimes I have 4. where they don't cut it right and it's just this ugly choppy edge and you don't want that, but some people cut it on the back with an exact knife , a craft knife, and they are careful not to get any of The skin I haven't really liked that way, but I haven't practiced with it much either, but what I like to do is I bought some brushes and combs from Dollar Tree for this and for women in each process, so I have a lot of them, so, oh, it's static, so what I want to do I like and a lot of people have said that they like the beard more narrow, that comes to a point for these because it shows the bodies and I'm liking like some of them that I've done with these huge beards that just cover, you know, the whole body.

I can't even fit this one in there, it's so big, so this is my little wizard acquaintance with a big old beard and I have this one - he has a big beard that I need to reshape, but this one is great with his beard so pointy and he doesn't always have different bears for different notes, so for this one I'm going to look more like this, so as I wanted, this will take a while, but since I wanted to show you how to do this, many

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s I've seen have skipped this part to save time, but I want you to do it. watch it so you know how to do it you should know how to do it my way my way isn't the best by any means but it's the way I'm going to use them okay so let's see where I loved it okay?

So what I do first is I want it to be as full as I wanted it to be, so I don't want it to be and one thing with this is we're going to end up cutting a notch in it and wrapping it around a little bit, turn it up a little because that makes the beard look very full. I'm rather just flat, so let's give it a little more for that width, but it's not really necessary. To be very wide, you might have a lot and end up cutting a little bit more of this off, so I'm moving it away from the edge that I'm going to cut right now.

I'm cutting it straight, do you know what you're doing? What will happen is you will get some of the pieces you just cut with your fingers and with a plane you will still feel like they are not quite straight, like I said this part takes a while if cut correctly it is worth the time. Okay, so what I do is I haven't really seen anyone else do this. I want to make sure you can see this, so I use the comb to make a part like you would in hair and separate it, but since I want to make this more like a triangle.

I'm going to make that triangle shape. More like a triangle. It's definitely curved here. I will only do one side at a time. It will be much easier. Well, once you have it. I'm trying to think of the best way to show you what this looks like. I'm basically making the part like you would in your head and you want it to be as straight as possible so it's easy to cut along that line so you can see it. so I'm going to cut right along this line, that way you won't cut any of the first, you'll just cut the backing like you said, it takes a while, you could probably do it faster if you're not so picky since I'm pickier on line than others, that's for sure, some days I just do it a lot faster.

I like to do it on the table and I like to separate it with the hand I'm not cutting with. and that helps really show what I said, this part takes a little time and sometimes I just cut a rectangle and then do it from there, but I'm trying to save some cuts, well, for one side and then I'll do the same for the other side. One thing about it is that if you buy it and it's wrinkled or creased, sometimes it will have a big crease if you wet it and blow dry it, that will go away. and it will also make it fluffier, so that's a little tip for people who are new to using fur.

Let's see. I think I really need to learn how to do it from behind. Is it much easier? You can see the shape. that's what you're doing that way now this is a weird edge so I'm going to cut the edge off if you're wondering why I'm cutting off part of the edges because it's like I'm thinking it won't show Well it's orange it's like a carrot, it was called the Lorax, finally okay, this is what it looks like and once we put it on we can shape it into that nice spot and I've heard some people use hairspray on this to help it keep its shape. that's something new.

I don't use hairspray, I don't have any in my house, but I'm definitely going to try it. I'm not sure I like the shape I did to this because it looks a little weird here. I think it was because it wasn't necessarily the way I cut it, but it was the edge of the material and that's why it didn't turn out right. I'll see, you'll see if I like it enough to wear it, you know what I really don't like hmm maybe with a little good hairspray it's a little long. I want it a little shorter than that, but it's easy enough to do so I can get excited about this orange fur now.

What I want to do is make a little notch where the nose is going to be, pick up a little circle, okay people, I shouldn't say cut a little semicircle, this one is a little big but it will work, yeah, so where do you make the And and you're working with her. I would choose any of the edges that are the edges that are the finish edges because I tend to be a little weird and they tend to have a weird shape like they go in and out. And so the fur there is stuck together in a strange way and I should have cut it more before I did the beard and it would have turned out that she, so I might actually end up covering this beard, we'll see. because I am very picky and yes I have covered my beard before in fact this had a very ugly beard underneath because at Christmas I couldn't find furs anywhere they were all sold out which is why it is so cheap and disgusting so when I got this amazing fur from Amazon.

I covered it so I'll have to make a video about it because you can't get under the hat like you'd like so you have to fold the beard. it's just that you're not getting the raw edge there, but yeah, I was happy to make these gnomes prettier. I was sad about that ugly ugly beard, okay, so what you want to do is a little bit of glue right under the nose and around wherever you want. stick it under the nose as much as you can and then wrap it around the nose a little bit and then once you do that you want to glue each of these sides and glue them at an angle and it does you know here if you do these places They already did it, but if you do it like this, it ends up being very flat when you do it, when you do it like that, it ends up having one more leaf.

So, that's a trick I learned from a YouTube video. I don't remember who was funny, but it's invaluable. Thanks, did you ever show me that I have seen so many videos about gnomes? You have an obsession with these little cuties, okay? Now his nose is in his beard and we're ready to move on to the hat, so I was very discouraged until late because of the hat. I used to get these at Michael's, they're 3 by 7. I mean, I wonder if it says here. I think they are 3 by 7. I will link below to the correct answer and they don't sell them anymore, they discontinued them and I can't find them anywhere and I find an oriental store. company, I found these at the bottom and sometimes they don't look so good, actually for this one it looks pretty good.

I don't know if my arm warmer would fit over it, but they're not that strong either, so I'd take the mache and make a video about it, but I've been paper machining my owncombs and like you said, I'll have to make a video about it to show people. how to make it if you choose if you like the shape of these and want to make them yourself. I haven't mentioned it yet, but I sell children so it includes everything you need except the filling and because that makes it heavier. for shipping so it's up to you to get your own padding and what else like the glue gun and stuff like that wasn't included like the glue and stuff that's not included.

Okay, now we want to paste this and I. I'm going to wear this on this, so this is my arm warmer that I bought on Amazon and it's so cute. The sad part is that I don't even use this cute thing here just because I really can't, I haven't figured out a way. to make it work the way I like, so what I'm going to do is cut off your handcuffs and sponsor you in some way by Fiskars. I don't know if I'm saying that right, these are the best scissors I've ever had well this one, I actually used two layers of quilting batting to intersperse because since these all have thick socks that I used to sew, I like them to look thick when I put this over this, it's very thin and when I put it over the cone I didn't like the way it looked, it looked really weird, so I put two layers of batting.

I'm going to check this out and he liked it, that's going to be her and me day, which is going to be really nice, yeah, actually, I like it. a lot I think he has a great way, good to know. I'm thinking I'm still going to make a batting cape because it's so much bigger than this one. I mean, she's not much bigger, but you know her. no, it's bigger, let's see, I like it, I'm happy with it, so they're not as strong, so normally I would do it with paper mache, but I mean, it's strong enough that I think it'll be fine, okay, I'll go to get the batting.

I didn't have that part ready, it's small enough. I want to do it again. It's fine in its place. I know I notice that with batting it takes a little longer for it to cure, that's okay and then I just cut around all the edges and Not only for me, for some reason it's easier and by doing it another way, cutting it At first, I leave a little at the top so there is a little cushioning at the toe. I don't love this space, so I think I'm going to go back to being a perfectionist and try not to do that now with a lot of these, so with this one and this one on this one I really sewed seams.

I made it by hand because I can't find my sewing machine, I hope I can find it. soon because it takes a long time to sew it by hand, but for this one, me and four of us like this one and I didn't sew this one, I just used the sock or the lake or as it was, which is what I'm going to do. what to do with this one, so let's place this so we just glue around the edge here, it's just inside the edge and I'm going to put the seam on the back and it probably won't matter, it'll show up, okay, cool.

The best thing about these gnomes is that you can, you know, set them to sit like this or like that, something I appreciate about them came, so you know, stretch this down. I'm really like, oh, okay, okay, so what I'm doing at the top to make it look like it follows the edges of the cone, even though technically it's not, it's like pulling it back a little bit, so just pulling it back a little bit. little bit back here and then tie an elastic on top. Glad to hear it. I put the stones in and I think I would put more stones in it actually because it's not heavy enough for my taste.

Well, again we'll take some thread and tie it around a really nice, tight access, but I'll probably cut it off. What I want to do is wait for the glue to dry a little bit more, okay, so this part, this is the cuff that will go around the bottom of the hat and it's part of a sock, it's the part of a fuzzy sock that I bought on Amazon. they're so thick and so soft I love them they're amazing for making ornaments so what I do is I pull it up and depending on the gnome like this I just know it's not a good example for this one I folded it like this. that the edges met in the middle for the most part, you can see here, they didn't really do it as well as I wanted.

Oh, it's because I haven't glued them on yet. I forgot I was doing this in a workshop. and I was busy showing people so I couldn't get it down, but on this one, especially because I want room for the clover on the hat on the cuff, I wanted it to be a little bit thicker and that's why I'm just going to hit it, just going to tuck the edges under a little bit, oh, one thing I forgot to do, I need to glue this on, you can just take it because you'll have the handcuffs on it and I.

I forgot to do this but luckily I did it perfectly anyway, this isn't really a theme but it is kind of a theme, it's a little piece that is uneven by a row and therefore is on the back of this . I didn't realize that and trying to do it it's hot it's right there so at least it's not right in the front okay now it's down and there's actually a fluffier side and naturally if when you stretch The sock naturally folds inwards in the set, so you decide. that's the fluffiest thing on the outside, which is good, so we're going to pull this down and then we're going to glue it down so that just the edges are tucked under and I always like to have this come down over the nose so that is wrapped. around the nose and I think it's so cute you want it a little lower in the back then the noses and these things fall off like crazy until you stick them on once you stick them on they're good I think I need a lint roller especially When I do my classes because the fluff gets everywhere, okay, I'll go.

I always like to glue the nose part on first because for me it's the most important anchor point, so I don't know if you didn't see this. here's the edge and I'm just rolling it down about a half inch or so and then I just apply a little bit of glue to the top of the nose and tuck it down and hold it while it dries nice so now I'm going to glue it around so if you wanted to add arms or legs which one of these days am I going to do but for now I really like the look of these two so I haven't ventured into that but if you did you just put the arm in tuck it down here, so sometimes I think I left room, but in this case I wanted to get some arms up there, I don't think I'll get it this time and then flip it over.

Be very careful when you glue around the beard and make sure the beard doesn't stick because it's very hard to fix that once it happens and just stretch it a little bit and reshape it sometimes, which I do and I didn't do it this time, I take the middle of the back and I make sure it's centered because you can put more sock on one side than the other and then it's thicker like the band is thicker on one side than the other. another one and that's not a look I'll do it for sure okay next thing is now I need to make the pom pom for the top that I just made with yarn and that's why I bought these oh this is the wrong color I want say. works I liked this darker color hmm I'm going to use the darker color so I love these shamrocks I have I'm going to get I couldn't find shamrocks I was in love with on Amazon I have them more like their own confetti and they're pretty cute I want I mean, that would be pretty cute, you could actually do more than one, in fact, I could do that.

I like things to be very clean, but sometimes I don't worry too much. ornament I like it to be very clean so let's see I don't think this is the darkest wonder yeah it is the darkest let's see so I wanted to talk to you about this so I bought these on Etsy and link the shop below where I bought it she makes all kinds of different felts that she cuts out and they are really cool she has a lot of cool shapes and colors you can choose from and she is pretty flexible on colors and things you can I chose from a lot of colors so for this one it was too much big, like it was too big for it, I thought it was, I mean, actually, it's not that bad, but I thought it was too big for this one, so I ended up cutting it down. down with the scissors and it took me a while to do that.

I'm not going to lie, it took a while because it's hard to cut the felt and get really clean edges and for the pom pom like this, you just wrap it around your fingers a bunch. a lot of times, so I'm getting a lot out of this, this part got tangled, so I need to do it this way, it's like a pain, okay, where does my end go?, so I just take two fingers and spread them on the part small, it's probably the same. If I did three fingers, yeah, I'm just going to do three fingers, it'll be easier, so just put three fingers together or you know, adjust them to the size of your hand, but yeah, just wrap a lot, a lot, a lot, okay, so I have no idea how many times I've wrapped it, but you can see it's pretty thick.

Now, once again, I find it easier to make an elastic to put right in the middle and just put it on once so it's easy to adjust. put it right in the middle now I don't like to use thread to wrap this. I use embroidery floss because I find it fluffs up a little better and doesn't look like two separate tabs when I do it so much. it still does but make sure you take a shot here okay now you just want to cut the loops okay see when they decide where the bottom is going to be and for mine it's very obvious where it's going to be and then just cut out those fish shapes whatever you want and I also like to comb it a little because it is a little more blurry.

You can always use pre-made pom poms when I made this. I didn't intend to make a pom pom, but I thought it would look better than just this raw edge here, I'm just brushing it to make it look better, okay, you're going to trim it, this one is much bigger so far, trim it towards down, it's getting closer, that's pretty bad, it's a little too much. big, I think I'll cut this, thanks, before cutting it down further for Lewis to try. I tried it very, very close to where it is tied, so I separated the pieces so I could place them.

There pretty good, I walked around a little bit more so I really covered myself, dude okay now I just need to decide what I'm going to do. I'm going to use this. I'm going to use this and crop it or keep it the same size. I have lint everywhere lint roller I like that size it works. I'm going to paste it. I could do it all over again. I would definitely buy smaller sizes from the Etsy shop, but I don't have time to do that and I've already spent a ton of money if they always do it, it's an addiction.

I buy so many things on Amazon and see if I like them and then if I don't return them, that's great with Amazon Prime. I'm going to make sure it's pretty nice, if I'm going to do this again, I would have tightened it up a little bit more and wouldn't have as much excess here, but it's okay, it's nice, yeah. I'm fine next time, whatever you do, you know this, so see you soon.