My first pincushion ...???

This is one of my typical slooooow projects. It took me some weeks to develop it and to choose how to complete it....Different ideas populated my head for days: this morning the simplest one won!

All started with some blues and stripes...

...and I added some orange to liven up the project in progress...

some close ups...

with a darker hue of blue (and folding the stripy rectangle in half) I started to join the sides with a border in single crochets...

....and before the last stitches, I filled it with some toy stuffing...

Even the orange piece (folded in half, too) has been sewn crocheting some single crochet stitches....

Two pieces...

...became one!!! Have a look :

I really love the lace effect of the roof and its emptiness!!!

I tried some cross stitching in the front of the house....

.....well????
I think I will use it as a pincushion, but the possibilities are more : decoration (I've added a loop on the top of the roof to hang it somewhere!), a lavender sachet, a soft toy, a......?????

xxxx Alessandra

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