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Crochet Gingerbread House Guide

This is the first of a three-part tutorial for making a crochet candy cottage gingerbread house. Part 1 covers gathering materials and constructing a chipboard support structure for the house. Materials needed include chipboard, hot glue, yarn in various colors, and a crochet hook. The chipboard structure involves printing templates, cutting out pieces, scoring folds, and gluing walls and a roof. Part 2 on Monday will cover crocheting the gingerbread house pieces and attaching them, and Part 3 will finish with frosting and candy decorations.

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Crochet Gingerbread House Guide

This is the first of a three-part tutorial for making a crochet candy cottage gingerbread house. Part 1 covers gathering materials and constructing a chipboard support structure for the house. Materials needed include chipboard, hot glue, yarn in various colors, and a crochet hook. The chipboard structure involves printing templates, cutting out pieces, scoring folds, and gluing walls and a roof. Part 2 on Monday will cover crocheting the gingerbread house pieces and attaching them, and Part 3 will finish with frosting and candy decorations.

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Crochet 

Candy Cottage Gingerbread House Tutorial Part 1
pinkmambo.com/crochet/crochet­candy­al­part­1­of­3/

Carolyn 20.11.2015

OMG I’m having cuteness overload here! How sweet is this little crochet pink and white trimmed gingerbread
house? I loved designing and making it. In contrast to my previous gingerbread house designs, I’ve chosen a
yummy pink and white color scheme for the frosting and candy. The whole thing is mostly single crocheted and
chains, and crocodile stitch for the roof. We’ll talk more about those pieces in Part 2. Today’s post is the first of
three. Here is the posting schedule:

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Posting schedule

Thursday November 19: Part 1: This post. Gathering materials and making the chipboard support structure

Monday, November 23: Part 2: Crocheting and affixing the gingerbread parts

Thursday, November 26: Part 3: Frosting and candy decorations
Tutorial Part 1: Gathering materials and making the chipboard support
structure
Finished house size

9″ tall x 10″ wide x 8″ deep

Materials

For chipboard support structure

6 pieces of 8.5 x 11 inch chipboard or cereal box sides
Hot glue gun w/glue sticks
Utility knife
Ruler or straight edge
Pen or pencil

For crochet pieces

Worsted/aran weight yarn (I used I Love This Yarn by Hobby Lobby in Toasted Almond, White, Pink and Soft Pink

425 yds/389m tan
100 yds/92m white
40 yds/37m light pink
25 yds/23m pink

Size G/6/4.00m crochet hook

Tapestry needle
Instructions for Chipboard Support Structure

Note: Save or print your pdf with pattern pieces for Chipboard Support Structure here.
Step 1:

Print the pdf template pages and temporarily tape each to a piece of chipboard.

Cut out the outlined patterns.

Step 2:
Lightly score the fold lines with ruler and utility knife. Only scratch the surface, do not cut.

Turn the chipboard over, score side down, and bend each fold up 90 degrees.

Step 3:

Glue the side walls to the front and back walls.
Glue the two roof pieces together along the roof peak (not shown).

Step 4:

To center the roof, make evenly spaced reference marks on the inside of the roof, using the base of the front or
back wall as a guide.
 

Step 5:

Glue the curved roof one tab at a time to the front and back walls.
I hope you will enjoy getting your materials together and making this little chipboard house to adorn with crochet
gingerbread, frosting and candies! I’ll see you Monday with part 2 of the tutorials!

PS I have news! I’m sending out my first regular Carolyn Christmas Designs newsletter to newsletter subscribers
on Saturday. So make sure you’re signed up! If you’re already signed up, it will tell you. If you subscribe to the
blog posts by email, this is not the same thing. You’ll need to also sign up for the newsletter because that’s
an entirely different thing coming to your inbox! For this week’s newsletter, I’ve planned a little
Thanksgiving­related gift for you that will be exclusive to newsletter subscribers. It’s just a taste of the
wonderful things I have planned for newsletter subscribers for 2016!

xo Carolyn

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