Sunday, 23 June 2013

The knitted Farmyard and fairy - tale fantasy Land

knitted castle
So, the Fantasy Land / knitted farmyard has become a real family endeavour, and is looking amazing, although still a way off completion still. My mother has knitted the fab castle and cottages, as well as the animals, and even my son's girlfriend (17yrs) has been making many many pom-pom bushes for me - Thank- You Alexa!
There was a set back with the company I used to buy the rug wool, no longer having the colour green I had been using, so I had to redesign the layout slightly, but I think it will work out ok.


The theme is generally classic fairy tales, so the castle can be for Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel etc

Amazing knitted castle with working drawbridge



Farmers cottage




Knitted farm animals

Hansel and Gretel with the witch's Gingerbread House



Still to come are Cottages for little Red Riding Hood and possibly the 3 little pigs houses.
There will be trees in the forest for the wolf to be hiding in too!

4 comments:

  1. Wow, these are beautiful! Did your mom have a pattern for the castle or did she just make it up? It looks a little different than the Jan Messent castle I've seen before and I love that the people can go inside of it!

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    1. Hi, thanks for your comment. There was no pattern, it was just made up, loosely based on the wooden castle seen in the earlier blog pictures.
      The forest is nearly complete so more pictures coming soon!

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  2. It is an incredible crochet work, well done.

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    1. Thanks, I really love that you have come across it online. May I ask how you found the blog?
      Happy you like it 😁

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