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The first step is to draw myself to scale and then draw the costume around myself. At this stage you can see the big hat and beard. I hadn't yet thought of the curly shoes when I first drew the figure. But, lower down you can see where I sketched the curly shoes in later.

I wish I had made the pants a little longer so that I could have tucked the top into my belt. As it was I just stuck with using suspenders.

This was my attempt to make the head look good. I settled on a good length for the hat and beard, figured out how to do the mouth (with one lip) and made a decent attempt at the nose. I had earrings in this picture, but I totally forgot about them until I looked back at this picture again when making this site.

I also tried out various ear shapes and ended up using the 4th one (the one with a pointy tip).

I tried to mathematically figure out how to lay out the hat flat, but I ended up just doing it by hand. I hung the fabric around the metal gnome frame and pinned and cut the fabric to the right size then sewed it up on the sewing machine.

In the upper right you can see the sphere numbers that I used to make the dome for the bottem part of the gnome head.