• Fill a jar or cup with rice.
  
• Slide the body sock over the jar, and turn the jar over to allow the sock to fill with rice.

  Pull the jar out of the sock.
  
• Add a couple of handfuls of pillow stuffing on top of rice. The sock should measure 6-7" from the bottom to the top of the pillow stuffing.
  
• Secure the opening with a hair tie.
  
• Cut hat sock as shown, cutting just before the ankle. Set foot portion to the side (can use to make another gnome sometime). You'll be using the side with the finished edge band.
  
• Turn the piece with the edge band inside out. Gather the cut (unfinished) end and secure it with a hair tie. Trim of excess.
  
• Turn the sock right side out. You should now have a gnome body and a gnome hat.
  
• Cut out a felt beard using the cutting template. Glue beard onto the front of the gnome.
  

Pointy Hat

• If you'd like your hat to stand up nice and tall, insert a pencil into the opening of the body. It should stick out a few inches. You can add a bit of hot glue around it to keep it in place.
  
• Slide hat over pencil. Arrange the hat so that the top is pointy and touching the top of the pencil.
  

Floppy Hat

• For a floppy hat, simply slide the sock hat onto the gnome and hot glue it into place. You can hot glue a pom pom to the end of the hat if you'd like.

  Note: floppy hats work best with regular socks (not fleece or bulky fuzzy socks).
  
• Glue the nose onto the front of the gnome.
  
• Add a few dots of hot glue under the hat to keep it in place.
  
• Admire your adorable gnome!