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Doll House

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This cute doll’s house is perfect for both play and storage, encouraging hours of imaginative storytelling and adventures!

Decorate it as you like: add flowers and a washing line to the outside and pictures to the inside – this little house is a blank canvas for you to personalize as you wish. I’ve used free-motion machine stitching to attach the appliqué shapes but a standard straight or blanket stitch on your machine would also work or, of course, you could hand-sew the pieces in place.

I like to drizzle a little wet glue along the stitches that hold the front hinged panels together to stop them from coming undone and to make the seams stronger. Although the back of the house can be glued, it’s important to hand sew the front so that the joins aren’t rigid.

Card is used to give structure to the house. Avoid corrugated cardboard as it may bend. If you can’t find card thick enough, you may be able to glue a few pieces of cardstock together until you have the right thickness. The card needs to be thick enough to stand up alone: two thickness of a cereal box would work well. Each piece can be cut from A4 card (210 x 297mmm/8.27 x 11.7in).

Note: Use a ¼in (5mm) seam allowance and read through all the instructions before you begin, to make sure you know how the house pieces fit together.

Finished size: 12 x 8½ x 12in (30 x 21.5 x30cm)

Edited (17/3/2022): Unfortunately, the interfacing amount for this project was not correct on its release date. We are very sorry about this. Please know it has since been corrected, and the pattern template available for downloading is the amended version.

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You will need:

Equipment

• Paper scissors
• Sewing machine
• Fabric shears
• Water-soluble fabric pen
• Strong wet fabric glue: I used Gutermann HT2
• Hand-sewing needle
• Free-motion/darning presser foot, for free-motion embroidery
• Optional: hot-glue gun and glue

Materials

• Five pieces of card each measuring 8 x 11½in (20 x 29cm) for the house walls and floor: see my suggestions for card in the introduction
• Two pieces of card each measuring 5 x 11½in (13 x 29cm) for the roof
• 55 x 20in (140 x 50cm) of fabric for the walls: mine is pale pink spot
• 26 x 10in (66 x 25cm) of fabric for the floor: mine is mint spot
• 26 x 10in (66 x 25cm) of green fabric for the garden
• 26 x 6in (66 x 15cm) of fabric for the roof: mine is yellow
• Two pieces of fabric each measuring 4 x 10in (10 x 25cm) for the handles: mine is yellow to match the roof
• 35½ x 55¼in (90 x 140cm) of fusible fleece: I used Vlieseline H630
• 16 x 10in (40.5 x 25cm) of white fabric for the windows
• 16 x 12in (40.5 x 30cm) of fabric for the window frames: I used pale green
• 12 x 10in (30 x 25cm) of fabric for curtains
• Scraps of coloured fabric for the bunting
• 6 x 8in (15 x 20cm) of green felt for the tree canopies
• 9 x 4½in (23 x 11.5cm) of brown felt for the tree trunks
• 5 x 15in (13 x 38cm) of brown fabric for the path
• 4 x 5in (10 x 13in) of blue fabric for the pond
• 8 x 4½in (20 x 11.5cm) of patterned fabric for the rug
• 20 x 6in (51 x 15cm) of fusible adhesive sheet: I used Bondaweb
• Three elastic hair bungees (or three pieces of fine elastic each 2½in/6.5cm long) for fastenings
• Three 1in (2.5cm) buttons for fastenings
• Optional: two ½in (1.25cm) buttons for the doorknob and flower centre

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