Course Overview

In this class, you’ll learn the hand-sewing techniques used by cloth dollmakers while creating your very own sock gnome doll. Tips, tricks, and techniques will be demonstrated for crafting with socks, fur, and doll filler materials.

Whether you’ve never stitched anything in your life, or you’re experienced with needle & thread, this class will break down the steps for newbies and teach a few tips and tricks for the more experienced sewist as well. You don’t even need a sewing machine.

1. You’ll learn how to work with socks and fur.
2. I’ll show you the 5 basic stitches you can do by hand that are used for almost every cloth doll project you’ll ever make.
3. Variations to embellish gnomes are shared at the end of the class to spark your creativity!

Tools & Materials Needed: You’ll need socks, fur, and some stretchy fabric, plus stuffing materials to make the gnome. You’ll also want to have some sharp scissors for cutting fabric as well as a long needle and strong thread. We’ll go over how to shop for each of these in the lessons, or you can refer to the materials list in the resources section for this class.

This class is a series of video lessons where you can watch and learn at your own pace. A Q&A forum area is available for you to ask questions and share your project.

Course downloads: 2 PDF documents are included for you to view or print at home—one for stitch diagrams and another for a supply list.

There are no sewing patterns included since we’re using socks for these gnomes. But the assembly steps in this course can also work for my PDF gnome sewing pattern or ITH machine embroidery gnomes.