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Christmas Craft Project - How to Make a Felt Gingerbread House For those who do not like to bake, this is a delicious looking but calorie free version of a gingerbread house that you can make for the holidays. If you have kids, you can also get them involved cutting out the pieces and hand stitching them on if they are able to sew. Another advantage of this house is that it will last for years!   All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info are property of this website and may be only printed out and used for private or non-commercial purposes. It is not permitted to use them on the internet or in any other publication. Home Spring Crafts and Easter Crafts Summer Crafts Autumn Crafts Christmas Crafts Craft Recipes and Tips Wood Crafts General Crafts Kids Crafts Paper Crafts Fabric and Sewing Crafts Greeting Cards and Birthday Cards Valentine’s Day Crafts Easter Bunny Crafts Easter Chick Crafts Maritime Crafts Nature Crafts Patriotic Crafts Halloween Crafts Pumpkin Crafts Leaf Crafts Santa Claus Crafts Snowman Crafts Gingerbread Men Crafts Craft Patterns Instructions, Tips and Tutorials Picture Gallery Artist Trading Cards Felt Crafts Tags Recycling Crafts Jewelry Crafts Clay Pot Crafts Fuse Beads / Perler Beads Crafts and Patterns Rainy day paper craft ideas for kids Tips and tricks for paper crafts, card making, etc Newsletter Sitemap Contact Links   Selected Winter and Christmas Fabric and Textile Crafts Christmas Quilt Crochet Scarf for Winter Felt Christmas Cookies Felt Gingerbread House Needle Felted Styrofoam Snowman For this project you will need: - thick felt (about 4 mm thick) in the   colors of medium brown and white for   the house and roof - stiff brown felt (aka modelling felt) for   the doors and windows - thin red, brown and pink felt for the   details such as the snowflake, heart,   star and candies - white and red embroidery floss - pattern (right) More Christmas and Winter Craft Themes: Christmas Crafts for Kids Christmas Fabric Crafts Christmas Wood Crafts Christmas General Crafts Christmas Greeting Cards Christmas Paper Crafts Snowman Crafts Santa Crafts Christmas Projects.com   Before starting, print out this gingerbread house pattern to fit your paper. It is a PDF version so you will need the Adobe reader program to open it. Instructions: 1. Follow the instructions on the pattern and transfer the markings on the pattern to the appropriate felt pieces and cut the pieces out. 2. First sew the 4 house pieces together using the blanket stitch. You have a front and back house piece and 2 side walls. 3. Now take the two roof pieces and sew the short sides together. 4. Place this piece now onto the house and match the two front and the two back roof angles to the felt and sew the roof on. You do not need to sew the side walls to the roof. The roof should hang over these. 5. Now sew the front roof piece onto the roof using the blanket stitch. Start adding the details and stitch each of these on using the embroidery floss. 6. This is a picture of the details. ..........................................................................................................................................   Related Crafts and Projects: All Sewing Crafts Find here fun and creative sewing and fabric projects for spring, summer, fall and winter. You will find patchwork wall hangings to use up lots of those fabric scraps as well as lots of small projects that are completed within a couple of hours. Felt Crafts and Needle Felting Projects for All Seasons Creating with felt is an art and a tradition that has been existing for over a thousand years. Here you will find plenty of ideas of how versatile felt can be. How to Make a Pom Pom Pom poms are decorative for different craft and knitting projects How to Add Fusible Web to Fabric and Applique Fabric Motifs Fusible web is like dry glue for fabric. If you need to applique one fabric piece to another, it is excellent to use. You will need an iron to heat up and activate the glue. Once the 2 fabrics are fused, you can continue stitching your applique without it moving around. Find out more in this step-by-step tutorial with pictures. How to Make Patterns and Permanent Templates You need patterns and templates mainly for sewing crafts, wood crafts and paper crafts. Creating permanent templates is easy and has a couple of advantages. First, if you wish to create the same project more than once you will save a lot of time because the template is already prepared. And second, if you are working with a group, the templates are durable and can be easily passed along to the next person. Permanent templates are especially useful when making crafts with children. Craft Patterns for Christmas and Winter Here you will find lots of patterns and  templates for the craft projects featured on this website and and Christmas and winter coloring book pages for the kids.   Next Craft >>> Crochet Scarf     Custom Search

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