Time to customize our Cozy Home! Page 136 of Cute Crochet World gives instructions for all kinds of add-ons: gable vent, window boxes, shrubbery, lintels, and chimney. The first three are crocheted separately and sewn on.
Lintels can be embroidered or crocheted. Here’s how I like to crochet them:
The thread is under the work. Insert hook from the right side of the work to the underside.
On the underside of the house, yarn over hook.
Draw the loop to the right side of the work.
When you have enough stitches, cut the yarn, leaving an end of about 10″/30cm.
Draw the loop completely out so the end of the yarn is on the right side.
Insert the hook from the underside to the right side of the work, in the same space as the yarn end comes out, making sure that your last loop will be caught by the yarn.
Yarn over with yarn end, and pull through to the underside of the work, catching the last loop as you go, so that it can’t come unraveled.
Now you can use that long yarn end to crochet the rest of the lintels—fewer yarn ends to weave in! Yay!
Embroider flowers and leaves or use beads to represent them. I like French knots for flowers and straight stitches for leaves.
Welcome to your new Cozy Home!