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This cute gingerbread house is really enchanting and unfolds to reveal a sewing box, with a little compartment for threads and a felt area for pins and needles. The roof is padded and not only is it decorative, but it doubles up as a pincushion as well! When not in use, place this house on your mantelpiece and simply admire.
Stitch a sewing box
Download the template. Print out, transfer the shapes onto cardboard, then cut them out. For the gable ends and sides of the house, carefully score along the central rectangle shape, taking care not to cut right through the cardboard. For the roof, cut a 12cm x 29cm rectangle from card and score down the centre.
To make the roof, place the template over brown fabric, wrong side up, and draw around it using a pencil. Using a pen and ruler, add 1.5cm to the overall size of the fabric, then cut out. Press a 1.5cm hem all the way around the fabric, taking care not to fold the material beyond the drawn pen line. Tack into place and cut out. Repeat the process with red fabric.
Place the cardboard roof top on wadding, draw around it, then cut the shape out. Use double-sided tape on the back and front of the cardboard. Stick the wadding to the top of the card. Cut the red fabric down the centre and remove the tacking stitches, then stick to the underside of the roof, smoothing out any wri
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