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| The house that Jack built |
Its just so cold out there! The thought of people having to sleep rough outdoors is really worrying. When the Crisis at Christmas leaflet came through the door, gently floating on a stream of warm centrally heated air it really struck a cord. Crisis can offer a lot more than Christmas dinner to the homeless if they have the funds they can offer a real turning point and direction to a better future too. I thought I would put something together to auction as an EBay.for charity item.
I quite like making tea cosies as a way of using up smaller bits and pieces in applique and patchwork but I have never knitted one. Thinking on a housing theme, memories of those odd "Tudor" cottage patterns you used see in Woolcraft sprang to mind. I'm rather fond of nursery rhymes too... next thing I know I'm making "The house that Jack built" - what a lot of characters!
Anyway this turned out be lots of fun. I've had a go at felting or strictly speaking "fulling" a big strip of loosely knitted Shetland wool into a thick mat for the walls, I've taken up the warmest seat in our house right between the radiator and my knitting machine to make the roof, got out my fabric paints and done some free embroidery on a sewing machine. I added one of my little designs on leather for the cock that crowed in the morn.
It's up for grabs now, the auction ends
Sunday 19th Dec.
Item number: 290511734935 Fingers crossed it will find a new home and the proceeds will help some one out of the miserable cold this Christmas. A perfect present for "the hard to buy for because they already have everything they need"
The damsel all forlorn has perked up no end since she got kissed by the man all tattered and torn!
cheers
Woolley Facade
What a fabulous house with all those detailed extra characters.
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