Knitted House Patch by Jackie Jeffery

Knitted House Patch

Knitting
May 2020
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
36 stitches and 46 rows = 4 inches
in Seed (moss) stitch
US 2 - 2.75 mm
44 - 87 yards (40 - 80 m)
One
English
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During the coronavirus pandemic, sewers and knitters in my village are creating blocks or patches of their houses, at a scale of 2cm to 1 m. These will be joined together later to create a patchwork of the village. The gauge used is 36 stitches and 46 rows to 4 inches in moss stitch using 2.75 mm needles but size is not very important in this work.

Due to many shops being closed here in the UK, I decided to use only the yarn I had already - this project uses only oddments so is a good stashbuster as well as cheap to do.

Materials Needed

The yarns used were:
Brick red - 1 x 50g Rowan Felted Tweed dk in ginger (154)
Dark grey - 1 x 50 g Yarn and Colors Must-Have in anthracite (099)
Green hedge - 1 x 50g Rowan Felted Tweed dk in avocado (161)
Cream door - 1 x 50g Cascade 220 fingering in natural (8010)
Embroidery - 1 x 10g Yarn and Colors Must-Have minis in denim (061), gold (089), peony pink (038) and 1 x 50 g Yarn and Colors Must-Have in Nordic blue (064) and lettuce (081).
Small oddment of matching or contrasting cotton fabric for backing plus matching sewing thread (optional).
Pair 2.75 mm straight knitting needles.
Large tapestry needle for sewing in the ends and embroidery.

I have estimated less than 25 m of the brick coloured wool is required and much less of the other colours. The embroidery uses only about a metre of each yarn at the most.