The Peg Gnomes have on their Christmas togs and have decorated their Gnome Home with a pine cone wreath which they made.

I had a scrap of sherpa fleece that I was about to toss in the trash. But taking one last look I realized it would make fabulous fur trim for peg doll Christmas outfits. So now I have a even smaller scrap but am definitely keeping it!

The pegs are painted with a opaque non-toxic paint. They have a ruff of sherpa fleece around their necks made out of a 1/4 inch strip of sherpa fleece that is stitched closed in the back. The hat from the gnome hat pattern in Margaret Bloom’s book Making Peg Dolls with an added trim of sherpa fleece stitched onto the edge of the hat before the back was sewn together.

I saw these tiny pine cones on the sidewalk when I was walking my dogs this fall. Every day I picked up a few more until I had a little jelly jar full. The gnomes saw what I had and asked if they could use it to make a wreath. (Just what I’d planned to do)!

The gnomes cut out a base of cardboard in the shape of a ring, but as it turns out, just cutting out a circle would have been better. The pine cones are glued on using craft glue. The wreath looked a bit bare until they added the center pine cone. They trimmed the cardboard away around the pine cones around the outer edge and used a brown maker on the bits that could be seen to make the base “disappear”. Then the gnomes added the 1/4 inch red ribbon and a piece of green thread so the wreath could be hung up.

The gnomes are pretty proud of their handiwork. I think it looks great on their pottery home!