“We’re moving to Cute Crochet World!” said Rog and Pam, happily. “Now we need a house.” Their real estate agent showed them this one. It was nice, but too plain. They wanted something fancier.
“This house is so cute!” said Pam and Rog, but they wanted different colors. “We’ll have to build our own house,” they agreed.
Meet Lio and Irene, construction experts on Cute Crochet World. Hi y’all!
Irene and Lio showed Rog and Pam lots of ideas for making a new house, including alternative building methods, like this knitted house. People of Earth, you can learn to knit a house like this in Suzann Thompson’s workshop “How to Knit Mosaic Patterns and Design Your Own,” at the Taos Wool Festival, in New Mexico, in October 2014. You can register for the workshop until September 1, 2014, at http://www.taoswoolfestival.org/workshops.
Rog and Pam decided to crochet a house. With Irene and Lio’s help, they chose materials and started building at the front corner of the house. The People of Earth apparently start their houses at the bottom and build up. How funny!
On Cute Crochet World, you begin building a house the front corner and work sideways toward the back, incorporating door and windows as you go.
To make a corner on a two-dimensional house, Irene and Lio used front-post hdc sts. You can tell it’s a corner, even though it doesn’t actually turn the corner. Find step-by-step photos to supplement the written Cozy Home instructions in the book, Cute Crochet World, here and here.
“On Earth, people put lentils over their windows and doors,” said Pam and Rog. “Let’s try it!” The lentils looked cute, but they kept falling off and sprouting.
This is Rog and Pam’s neighbor, Hugh. He’s a teacher. Hi, Hugh! He studied the lentils over their windows, and consulted a book. “I think this is a spelling problem,” he said.
Hugh offers this spelling advice: “‘I’ before ‘E,’ for windows, you see.” “Ah,” Rog and Pam said. “LINTELS.” Not lentils. They slip-stitched their lintels, but embroidery would have worked well, too.
On Mars, a yellow front door means ‘Welcome!’ Rog and Pam continue the tradition on Cute Crochet World.
Find instructions for the house, people, book, and much, much more in Cute Crochet World: A Little Dictionary of Crochet Critters, Folks, and Food.