A li'l wool cottage

Whilst knitting my colourful jumper last year, of which I waxed lyrical about here, I got the 'brilliant' idea (well I thought so) of incorporating a few of the stitches in a new knitted woolly.....just because I had the time of my life knitting my colourful jumper....(not)!! You would think I might be a little averse in picking up those darn pins again, but no....where would the fun be in that. 

Though Autumn and then the icy breath of Winter is just around the corner of our country road, I should be thinking about knitting another lovely warm wearable woolly, but I don't want to start another garment just yet......so....why not a cute li'l cottage cushion!! Simple...right....well.....I think so. So, let's just see if what is churning around in my cranium can be translated from a foggy idea into something lovely that can happily co-exist with  my many other cushions that sit in our li'l ole abode.

My li'l cottage will go perfectly with these two lovelies. The pretty Liberty cushion designed by Anne Hubert of La Cerise Sur Le Gateau fame, was a birthday present from my husband a few years ago and the gorgeous pure wool, felted flower cushion was a fortuitous find at an op shop.

I haven't sketched any drawings or patterns; I am going with the flow once again. After all, a humble cottage is just a rectangle with a triangular shaped roof.....right??

I envisage after the knitting of the cottage is finished I will embellish with curtains, window panes, trailing flowers climbing up to the rafters and of course a pretty flower garden. After all I am a gal who bangs on about...."it's all about the look"!

But of course, the embellishing is for a later time. First one has to cast on the first stitch!

I have chosen a pretty green shade of double knit wool for the grass, two complementary shades of blue for the brick pattern and a light grey for the windows and the door. The cottage is going to consist mainly of a brick pattern for the walls, plain old boring, stocking stitch for the windows and door, and a honecomb pattern in blue and brown for the roof.

Both the brick pattern and the honeycomb pattern really are the easiest of patterns. It doesn't take long at all for these two patterns to knit up into something half acceptable.

See, I told you it is easy as. The only thing that was a pain in the right royal proverbial, was the tangling of all the strands of wool as I knitted merrily along. I don't know how many times my good husband and my good self,  unravelled all those pesky balls of wools.

The front of my cute li'l wool cottage is knitted. Me thinks before I knit the back I might start to plant the garden and adorn the windows with curtains. Yes indeedy, a li'l embellishing will be the order of my day. The back of my li'l cottage will just have to wait.

I am off to 'plant' a few seeds around my woolly cottage.  I am linking up with "Janine's lovely blog, "Wool on Sundays", so have a bo peep at what woolly delights both Janine and everyone else have been up to this week.

'Tis toodles from me.....wishing you all a lovely weekend.