Finished knitted sweater and cross stitch folk animals house.

 Hello everyone,

Long time no see here on my Blog, I thought I would have a little tinker with it and see if I can start it up again. You will find some old posts on here from years ago so I have left these on and there is also allot of posts I have lost to, I have to say I was never very tech minded so always struggled a bit posting and editing. 

As I go through everything here on blogger it seems they have deleted a few services like the follow gadget is not in use and subscribe by email is not there to, so I don't know how good my posting is going to be or if anyone will see it who knows. You can however find me on INSTAGRAM and RAVELRY details on the right side of this post😏

Well I can show you a finish I had been knitting a nice warm snugly sweater for myself using WI Institute Aran yarn which you can purchase at Hobbycraft a UK store.

It is very easy to knit the yarn is lovely and soft also washable the stitch pattern is Cobble stitch a 4 row repeat pattern from Womens Weekly UK magazine stitch library. 

This is a simple drop sleeve round neck and it's made to fit my measurements M/L.

I have also been doing a little cross stitch I started this Folk Style House pattern

stitched on 14 count cream aida using DMC threads. The pattern shows it finished on black fabric but I am not happy using dark fabrics my eyes are not to good for that (hence why I only stitch on large count) so some colour changes were made so they can stand out on the light fabric, it is still very enjoyable to stitch with nice bright colours to.

You can find the pattern on Etsy the shop name is XCrossStitchPatternX by Julia.

For now that's all this was more of a test post and hopefully I will post more often with more knitting projects a few crochet finishes to show you and the cross stitch updates to.

Hope you have a lovely weekend

bye for now

Julie x