Download and print the templates from sewmag.co.uk and cut out. Snip a rectangle, 16.5cm x 27cm, from fabric. Cut three rectangles, 7.5cm x 12.5cm, from mount board. With the fabric right side up and landscape, lay the three card rectangles portrait across the middle, with a 1mm gap in between each and a fabric border of 1.5cm. Carefully remove the middle card and use a water erasable pen to trace around the two outer pieces. Set the card aside.

Turn the fabric 90 degrees to work on the top rectangle first for one of the house sides. Cut silver ribbon, 16cm, and glue so the bottom edge sits on the pen line. Trap a length of candy cane piping under the top edge of the ribbon, then machinesew across the top edge and bottom to secure.

Cut out two window frames and window glass pieces from oddments. Back the light colours with interfacing. Assemble and stick the windows in place, centrally along the top of the candy cane trim and 2cm apart, using the photos as a guide.

Stitch around the frame with contrast thread and the windows with a matching colour. Sew a scallop pattern around the window frames in white, stitching over it twice. Turn the main fabric around so that you can mirror the process on the other rectangle. Iron on the reverse.