Not your average garden gnome - or owl!

Gnome with a bobble hat and a full mophead of hair. Filled with out-of date-lentils. Mostly knit in the circular machine, finished off the taper of the hat by hand knitting. Although a red pompon was called for in the original pattern just did a bobble of knitting and stuffed it with a miniature ball of wool. No embroidered features, just that nose which is a piece of the face grasped with elastic band. Wonder what would happen if I left it outdoors? Here's a shaky owl. Being stuffed with out-of-date rice, he is growing fatter and fatter as it settles.