We all know how sweet knitting is, and how moreish. We also know that knitting conjures up the idea of cosy firesides and being tucked up in a woolly blanket for storytime. So what better use for knitting than a giant knitted gingerbread house?
This unique abode is all down to Alison Murray, a keen knitter from Bideford in North Devon. It is made up of 10-inch knitted squares that have been sewn together, and the only part of the house that is not knitted are the doors and windows.
Outside the house is set in a knitted garden featuring 12-foot high trees. And inside the wondrous dwelling everything else is knitted too. The chairs are knitted, the table is knitted, all the sweets, cakes and goodies have been hand-stitched, and even the wicked witch’s stove is knitted. It is an amazing and tasty-looking achievement, which over 500 knitters from across the UK, USA, Canada and Spain took part in knitting.
The knitted house will be unveiled in the mall of the Atlantic Village shopping complex in Bideford on June 28 and it will stay there until September 20.
The house will raise money for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and North Devon Hospice, and Alison hopes to take it on a UK tour to raise even more. They will also raise money with a cookery book, and knitted gingerbread men (you can find the pattern here) signed by celebrities.
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