I seem to have a propensity for whipping up cute cottages in one form or another. Those of you who are new to my blog perhaps have not seen this cottage backpack I fashioned, complete with Jack and his sweet family all ready to take residence, which I penned all about here.
And....this cottage was a needlebook swap that I stitched last year which I gushed a little about, here.
But to get to the subject of this post, I have just finished my li'l wool cottage, hopefully transforming it into a prime piece of real estate. I donned my gumboots, dug out my spade and planted a few embroidered wool flowers, here and there (oh all right I couldn't help myself.......I stitched a full-blown garden) and hung little snippets of a pretty crochet doily to decorate the windows. Oh, and I free hand machine stitched a doggity dawg! Every cute cottage needs a puppy to sit amongst the flowers. I am afraid I went a li'l crazy with the flowers as I covered the 'grass' with oodles of floral delight. Every cottage is all the more lovelier, if it is swallowed up by a wild and glorious garden....don't you think??
For the garden, I embroidered lazy daisy, buttonhole and french knot flowers and leaves all over the grass at the bottom of the cottage and stitched a flower vine to wind it's way up the front door, around the windows and then escaping up onto the roof. These are embroidered in tapestry wool.
I then quickly knitted up the back. As this cushion is for me I decided to leave the back plain, with no embroidery and no windows or back door. Normally I would embellish the back to an inch of it's life but on this occasion I just wanted my cushion done!
And of course I knitted a couple of chimneys.....after all every cottage needs a chimney or two, to blow out all that nasty smoke. We can't have the parlour filling up with sooty vapors now....can we??
And of course I knitted a couple of chimneys.....after all every cottage needs a chimney or two, to blow out all that nasty smoke. We can't have the parlour filling up with sooty vapors now....can we??
I am happy with my li'l woolly cottage as I didn't have any pattern....I just went with the flow. Whilst knitting this cottage, my fuzzy mind imagined a few more different styles of real estate I could 'whip' up.....but I might 'build' these at a much later date. This cottage measures 15 inches wide and from the top of the chimneys to the bottom of the garden 15 inches in length. The two knitting patterns were very easy....a brick pattern and a honeycomb pattern. I thought these two stitches perfect for the knitting of a cute li'l cottage.
As for my li'l cottage, it is perfect sitting on my rocking chair......mmmmm.....very nice....very nice indeed!
Linking up to Janine's, Wool on Sundays. 'Tis toodles from me. Wishing you all a wonderful week!
