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Gingerbread House Crochet Patte Pattern rn.   House dimesnions: width 22 width 22cm cm,, length length 29  29cm cm,, height without pipe 27. You can make a house of any size, based on the availability of materials.

You will need : Materials:

Plastic canvas, canvas, size 26 * 33, find a hard one, so it  could keep the shape. You will need 4 sheets for a house like mine.   Beige felt 9 sheets A4 for lining. You can take the thinnest and cheapest. Yarn: Yarn Art Jeans 07 beige 4 skeins, for roof Alize Cotton Gold 89 terracotta 1 skein (there is a similar shade of Jeans 43). Jeans white (62 or 01) 1 skein, red (26), green (52) and a few different bright shades for sweets. Wooden Wo oden skewers for for barbecue 30 cm. Green pipe cleaners 2 pcs for a wreath and several of Ifany colors for cand candy y canes. transparent transparen t plastic cansmall take a plasticpieces folder). possible: a thin red ribbon,Thin a red-white cord and a (you pair of bells for wreath, white synthetic pompons 2 cm and 1 cm for smoke from a pipe, sweets can also be replaced with colored pompons. A small led garland on batteries. Tools:

2.25 mm crochet hook for 2.25 mm hook for Jeans or the one one,, that is convenient for you for this yarn. 2 mm crochet hook is also needed. Hot glue gun. You can sew details when it is possible, but it is better both to glue and sew, glue gives additional hardness additional hardness.. Sewing threads and needle in tone with the main yarn. Big eye eyed d needle for yarn. Pins,, iron, Pins iron, scissors, stapler, ruler, permanent marker for marking the canvas. It may come in handy: a thimble or a tool such as pliers. The of thethe house is not is not very cheap. cheap . How can you wall save? You cost can make house smaller. You can make a side for 1 window instead window  instead of  2.  2. Use cardboard instead of canvas. If the cardboard is brown, then you can probably do without felt lining. The  The light lightning ning is  is also not obligatory. To save time on crocheting  candies crocheting candies,, you can use ready-made colored synthetic pompons and other suitable  decorat suitable decorative ive elements. elements.

STITCH KEY:

 AR – Adjustable Adjustable Ring(Magic Ring) ch- chain sc- single crochet htc- half treble crochet sl st –slip stitch dc – double crochet

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First of all cut in half all 4 sheets  of canvas. canvas.

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Then use 2 pieces to make a front and back  walls (see previouse page with a drawing) Keep the triangle pieces, we will need them later.   later.

I made this house for a Gingerbread Man from my another pattern. So I need to make the door according to his size.

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Cut out the door. And then cut from the door 0.5 cm in height and width. So the door can fit it’s place after crocheting. @pinky_pinky_blue

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When cutting parts parts,, pay attention atten tion to the edge. Better cut these cut these small sticks.

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Cut out windows according to the drawing. You can mark the canvas with a permanent marker @pinky_pinky_blue

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This is how all details of the house will  look like. 7 of 8 half pieces of canvas are are in use.Put away 2 pieces for the roof, we will work with the them later.

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  Make a felt lining for for all parts except the roof. roof. 1 sheet of felt fits for 1 piece of canvas.. Wrap one side, bend the edges. canvas e dges. Fasten Fas ten with hot glue. But try not to put a lot of glue on the edge e dge of the canvas, then it will be hard to stitch. You can can also sew the lining to the canvas.. canvas..

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Now crochet all the details with main color. Here I can’t give you  you exact quantity of stitches and rows. Because it all depends on  on the size of your house and your crocheting density. crocheting density. Just crochet Just crochet according to the size of the the parts,  parts, always applying and trying on. Single crochet  from bottom to top with top with back-and-forth rows.   rows.

When you come up to the windows, split your work into 3 parts and crochet them separately.

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Now on the top edge of the windows you need to chain as many loops, as you skipped at the bottom of the window. After you finish crocheting the detail iron it to make straight and flat.

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To bevel the roof you need to do decreases at the beginning of  the row. Apply crocheting to crocheting  toand theend base every row, every  row, and look, if you need to make a decrease, or to or to keep  keep crocheting straight. The There re is no exact no exact formula, formula, it  it  depends on the angle of the roof  and crocheting crocheting dens  density ity.. @pinky_pinky_blue

Make window glass from transpearent plastic. Cut squares larger than the window by 1 cm from each side and glue.

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  Using a needle and sewing thread, sew the door at 4 points. Make several stitches at each point. The door should be able to open and close.

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Crochet a rectangle in red, equal to the size of the door. Сrochet Сrochet so  so that  rows ran along the door, not across. that

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Crochet one more the same piece and sew them on door from both sides: stitch open sides over the edge, and near the wall stitch wall stitch through the through  the door. door.

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Now fix the crocheted walls to the base with glue, and sew all the edges with a needle. Canvas allows you to sew all details easily,, but I am not sure that it will be easy with easily a cardboard. If when stitching the needle gets stuck into the glue, use  use thimble or pull out the needle  with a pliers. needle

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Insert white yarn into the needle and fix 4 threads on the window vertically.

Now tightly braid them with 8-shaped stitches.. stitches

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Repeat horizontally, fixing both crossbars in the center. @pinky_pinky_blue

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In white, crochet the chain equal to the perimeter of the window, sl st into  a ring. Use pins for measuring, and remove them when crocheting.

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Work 1 round sc, in corners work 3 cs in 1 chain. chain.

Ch 3 in white, leave it. it. Join red yarn and ch 3 in the next st. st .

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Put the white chain behind of the red one, sl st in next st. @pinky_pinky_blue

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Again chain 3 in white white..

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Now put the hook into the red chain. Put the red chain behind of the white one, sl st in the next st, chain 3. 3.

Continue to crochet in red and white thread around the perimeter. The edge  edge may get  get wavy wavy,, but  but it's  it's okay.

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Attach the frame to the window, unite the corners and sew the inner edge of the frame to the beige piece piece.. And glue the outer edge with gun, all in this waves will  for will straighten. straighten . Makeaframes in frames  this way all windows.

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The bottom of the house (the floor), also wrap with felt lining on one side and crocheted piece on another. Sew all the walls to the floor (outside).

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Raise the walls and sew all angles from outside.

Now let's make the roof. Halves of  canvas are not quite suitable in size, we need to make make them longer and narrower. narrower. Cut off 2.5 cm from long side. And use this strip to increase its length, fasten them them together  together with  with a stapler.

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Make felt lining for both parts of the roof.

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  Crochet roof tiles in tiles in terracotta color. Chain 1 cm  cm longer than the base of the roof. Firstt row work sc Firs sc.. From the second row begin to crochet tiles (shell patt pattern) ern)

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Shell pattern

Here is a scheme for shell pattern.

stitch key ch sc dc

After 1st row of shells join white yarn. Do not turn the work and cs on the front side  just through front loops, loops, increase in center of every shell. Cut white white yarn. yarn. @pinky_pinky_blue

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Now turn the work and continue to crochet shells according to the scheme but through front loops.

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Every 2 rows join white yarn, work 1 row sc and cut the yarn again.

Crochet a whole piece in this way according to the size of the roof.

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Join terracota yarn to the beginning edge and crochet the second half of the roof. First work 2 rows sc and then crochet shells.   shells.

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Steam the roof with an iron, smoothing white stripes towards the edge.

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Glue two pieces of the roof to the wrong side of the crocheted tiles. A space for bending should be left between them. Do not apply too much glue.

Sew both pieces along the edges. Bend protruding edges of the crocheted tiles and also stitch them on.

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Sew one half of the roof to the house. First sew on front and back walls.  walls. 

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Now sew the long side of the roof to the side wall.

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Leave another half of the roof opening, so kids could play with the house. Insert the wood skewers on the sides under the crocheted piece and cut the excess.

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Canvas, although hard, but flexible. To make the frame of the house harder house harder,, glue in all the inner corners wood skewers, pre-cutting the desired length.

Along the opened wall (where (where the roof opens) sew on the skew skewer er to the top edge , since there is no corner so glue it in in..

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Cut out from the remaining sheets of felt strips about 2 cm wide and glue all the corners. So skew skewers ers fixed even better, house becomes stronger stronger..

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To make a pipe, take the triangles, remaining from the front wall. Cut out detail 4 cm wide.

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You need 2 pieces of such details with an angle, angle, equal to the angle of the roof. And 2 more rectangles, 4 cm wide, and length according to the sides of the beveled part. And 4*4 cm square for the top.

Sew all the details with a needle in this figure. You can make the pipe opened on top, then you will need to do felt lining inside.

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First crochet a rectangle equal  equal to the long side of the pipe. Then pipe. Then continue crocheting continue crocheting the beveled side. Decrease in the beginning and the end of the row for bevel. Try this detail on the base every row every row to decide if decrease is needed or not.

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Work the short side straight.

Last side of the pipe is also beveled. But here we need to increase in the beginning and the end of the row. Finally you should get the detail looking like this:

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Put it on the plastic base and sew. Also stitch through the canvas to fix.

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Cover the top with a crocheted square. Or don’t make it if you want opened pipe, make a felt lining instead.

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Crochet a white strip of 3 rows sc. Sew it on the top of the pipe.

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Sew the pipe onto the closed half of the roof. Insert the needle right through the roof. @pinky_pinky_blue

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For lightning I took smal led garland with battery and removed these fir trees from it.

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Take a wide strip of felt and make a pocket for the battery unit. Glue it right under the pipe, so stitches from attaching attaching the pipe will be not seen from inside. @pinky_pinky_blue

 

Fold the garland and wrap it with felt, leaving the leds outside.

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Glue the garland near to the battery unit. @pinky_pinky_blue

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 For candy canes I use 2 mm crochet hook.  In white yarn 7 sc in Adjustable Ring. Sl st in .first st to make a circle.

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Now work through back loops only. In white yarn 1 sl st, 1 sc, 5 htc. Pull up the working loop and remove the hook.

Join red yarn and make another working loop, don’t continue crocheting the white one. In red: 1 sl st and sc around until you come to the end of the white round.

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Now leave the red working loop and insert the hook into white one. Htc around. Then leave the white and return to the red one, work sc round in red.

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Crochet in this way as high, as long candy cane you need. First finish in red with sl st, fasten off. For finishing in white work 1 sc,  1 sl st. Leave long white end.

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Insert a pipe cleaner inside. Darn the hole with the end of the yarn. yarn. @pinky_pinky_blue

The pipe cleaner lets to bend the candy and keeps its shape. shape.

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For a more interesting effect, you can additionally embroider embroider   another thin strip on  a candy ( red on green and green on red).

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To make the doorway, crochet a long candy,  bend it in П form and and  steam with an iron.

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The steamed part is easier to glue.

I made round candies candies in  in 2 sizes. Big candies were used  used for wall decoration (bottom and scatter,  scatter, as well as on the bend of the roof). 6 sc in AR, in 2d round inc every st. And work 2 rounds straight. Do not stuff.

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Insert the end of the yarn into needle. Sew through the back loops and a nd tighten.

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For small round candies: candies: 8 sc in AR and work 2 rounds straight. Do not stuff, tighten with a needle. These small candies are used on the roof  and as a door handle.

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For a wreath, twist 2 green chenille wire in a circle. Wrap with decorative cord or thin ribbon.

Make a bow from a red ribbon and add a pair of small bells.

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For a small mint candy chain 5 in white yarn. Join red yarn and work 1 dc in 1st chain.

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Continue working in the same 1st chain. Alternate white and red dc.

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When you get 8 white and 8 red dc, finish with a sl st. Make mint candies in different colors.

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For mint lollipops first crochet small mint candy, but work the last sl st in white.

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Chain 3 in white and 1 dc in the same st. Then work 2 green dc in a green dc of 1st  round.

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Keep crocheting 2 white and 2 green dc around.

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Fasten off the green yarn. In white chain 12 Fasten and go down sc for a stick.

For heart shaped candy 1 sc, 1 htc, 6 dc in AR. @pinky_pinky_blue

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Ch 2, 6 dc, 1 htc, 1 sc.

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Adjust the ring and get a heart shaped candy. candy.

You can make as many different candies as you want and decorate your house in different ways. All candies are attached with hot glue. The hot glue holds crocheted details very tightly.

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For smoke from the chimney I chimney I used white synthe synthetic tic pompons of 2 sizes. Just glue glued d them on top of each other.

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  Here are some more pictures of the the house house from differen differentt sides sides to better see decoration:

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And light switched on. Isn’t it magical?

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These two sweet Gingerbread Boy and Girl are made from my another pattern, you can also find it in my Etsy shop. shop.