Dec 5th: Gingerbread Dollhouse pt. 2

Hello and welcome back to the second part of the gingerbread dollhouse. Yesterday we prepared the basic shape of the house. If you've missed the last post, you can find it on the right in the Advent Calendar 2017 folder.


So, today we'll be sewing it together. So let's get straight into it!

How it's done: 

1. Lay the fabric shapes good side to good side and pin them together. Take up to four pieces of elastic ribbon and make a little loop with each of them that fits around the buttons you chose for closing the house. Pin the ribbon with the loop facing inside the construction on the points shown. (Note: I first had two elastic bands sewn in and cut them off later because the "door" would stay shut without any help)
(Optional: sew handles by sewing along the long sides of two long rectangles. Flip them right side out and pin the edges of them to the "x"s on the picture. Again, the loops are inside and the raw edges outside)

2. Sew around the corner, leaving a gap that is wide enough to get every piece of your cardboard through (e.g. leave the purple or red line open).
3. Turn the shape right side out. If you want to, you can press the edges to get them more neat. This is optional though.

Steps 4 and 5

4. Shove all the cardboard pieces inside the construction and onto their destined place and close the gap. Pin along the edges so that the pieces won't move while sewing.
5. Sew along the edges between the pieces. It might be a good idea to do some of the edges by hand if you're making a large house since it might not fit under the sewing machine without folding the cardboard. Take care not to sew through the cardboard!


6. Sew the red line in the sketch to the purple line and the blue one to the green line. Join the roof pieces in the middle as well.




Depending on the size of your house, the fifth step might take quite some time. That's why I want to stop here for today. Tomorrow we'll be decorating the house, so you could do half the sewing today and the other half tomorrow if you don't have enough time today.