The Little House - Creating a Tiny Hand-Knit House
Six years ago this month, I designed and published one of my all-time favorite knitting patterns…The Little House.
As you can see from the photos below…I have made a lot of these little hand-knit houses!
A couple times, I made a set of matching houses to give as Christmas ornament gifts. For example, I used a skein of beautiful red worsted weight yarn to make the little red houses shown below. Some leftover cream colored yarn was used to knit the seed stitch roofs.
Little Red Houses - I made a set of these to give as Christmas ornament gifts a few years ago.
Other times, I have used bits and pieces of left-over yarn to make little houses to match a friend or family member’s home.
I love hearing from customers who enjoyed using this pattern to make custom little houses (to match real houses) for one-of-a-kind gifts!
“Completely adorable. Very easy to follow instructions.”
These little houses are so fun to knit. The house is knit flat and then seamed at the corners to make a three dimensional house shape. The roof piece is knit separately in seed stitch.
The door, window and heart pieces are cut from nice quality felt and then stitched onto the knitting using DMC embroidery floss. A French knot makes the perfect door knob. After completing the felt applique, I stuffed the house with a little bit of poly-fil and stitched on the roof piece.
Nice quality felt and DMC embroidery floss used to create the doors, windows and a little heart.
I use a clip-on style marker to center the roof piece when stitching it to the base of the house.
The knitting pattern includes very detailed instructions for how to knit and assemble the little house. There are also detailed instructions for all of the embroidery stitches used.
The red houses were knit with Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Worsted in ‘Red Hot Passion’ colorway. The roof pieces were made with the ‘Creme’ colorway.
For the felt…I recommend using good quality wool or wool blend felt. This can be found at some small quilt shops or I have purchased some beautiful felt from the Sweet Emma Jean shop on Etsy - great selection with beautiful colors!
For the embroidery floss - I use DMC embroidery floss purchased at the craft store. A sharp embroidery needle (DMC#24) is very helpful!
The knitting pattern includes detailed step-by-step instructions for finishing The Little House…including how to stitch on the roof piece.
Here’s a few little houses I made using odds and ends of yarn leftover from various projects. Each little house only requires about 40 - 45 yards of worsted weight yarn (about 25 yards for the house and about 15 yards for the roof). So….this is a great stash-buster project!
For these little houses I used various left-over worsted weight yarns. It was fun to use different color felt pieces to decorate each house.
The little gingerbread house version (below) reminds me of all the good times my kids and I had baking and decorating gingerbread houses from scratch.
To make the little gingerbread house an ornament, I threaded a thin red ribbon through the top of the roof.
For the gingerbread house (above), I used Berroco Vintage Worsted ‘Cork’ #5156 – which I bought in December 2013. (I think this colorway has been discontinued.)
This pattern will work well with many other worsted weight yarns.
You may have noticed that this photo of one of my first little house projects has become part of my Fifty Four Ten Studio logo!
WHERE TO GET THE PATTERN:
On this Fifty Four Ten Studio website: Click here to purchase The Little House knitting pattern on this website.
Ravelry: Click here to purchase the pattern on Ravelry.
Thanks so much for reading!
Happy knitting!
