Part 6 of the Gingerbread Village. This wickedly delicious Gingerbread Haunted House is the sixth addition to the Gingerbread Village and is perfect for October, although you can add it to the Christmas Gingerbread Village too. Stitched with yummy overdyed silk flosses, Perle Cottons, sparkling beads and delicious looking ‘candy’ buttons, pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, candy corn, skeletons, and Trick or Treaters! It is stitched on Gingerbread colored linen like the other pieces in the Gingerbread Village series and is dripping with black icing, windows, and wrought iron touches. I love the purple mansard roof.. but I couldn’t find a good purple linen in my stash, so I dyed my first pieces of linen with purple and black mixture.. it looks great! (My dyeing instructions are below) The Haunted House is made of two main pieces; the main two-story house and the spooky tower in the front. There are even some cute Trick or Treat Kid buttons.. wonderful to add for that extra fun! Some finishing instructions are included at the end of this leaflet. This year, place this special decoration on your hall table all October to celebrate the fall and Halloween! Wishing all of you a happy Halloween, with ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night! -Thea
House Front and Back
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Design area: 106w x 64h (7.6” wide x 4.6” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Gingerbread'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 11” wide x 8” high for finishing
House Sides 1 and 2
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Design area: 54w x 64h (3.9” wide x 4.6” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Gingerbread'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 7” wide x 8” high for finishing each
Turret Front and Back
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Design area: 34w x 90h (2.4” wide x 6.4” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Gingerbread'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 6” wide x 10” high for finishing
Turret Sides 1 and 2
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Design area: 16w x 90h (1.1” wide x 6.4” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Gingerbread'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 4” wide x 10” high for finishing
House Front and Back Roof
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Design area: 106w x 24h (7.6” wide x 1.7” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Eggplant'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 11” wide x 8” high for finishing each
House Sides 1 and 2 Roof
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Design area: 54w x 24h (3.9” wide x 1.7” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Eggplant'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 7” wide x 5” high for finishing
House Roof Top
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Design area: 84w x 32h (6” wide x 2.3” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Eggplant'
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Cut fabric: 9” wide x 6” high for finishing
Turret Roof Front and Back
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Design area: 34w x 24h (2.4” wide x 1.7” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Eggplant'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 6” wide x 5” high for finishing each Turret
Turret Roof Side 1 and 2
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Design area: 16w x 28h (1.1” wide x 2” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Eggplant'
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Cut 2 pieces of fabric: 4” wide x 5” high for finishing
Turret Roof Top
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Design area: 12w x 16h (.9” wide x 1.1” high)
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - 'Eggplant'
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Cut fabric: 4” wide x 4” high for finishing
Dyeing your Linen:
There are some excellent purple linens on the market, and you can certainly use any roof colour you like. However, Thea hand dyed some antique white linen with a simple RIT dye for the mansard roofs. Here's what she did: Empty a full packet of purple Ritz Dye and a quarter packet of black Ritz Dye into the basin of warm water. Stir to mix as per the directions on the package. Follow dye instructions using a small piece of linen first, to be sure you like the effect. Place antique white or white linen into the dye mixture, stir occasionally and let the dye soak in. When dye has produced a deep colour, remove the pieces from the basin, wring out, and hang to dry. Once dry, check for colour. If you think the colour is too light, just reheat the dye water solution, and repeat dyeing process for a deeper shade. When dry, stretch purple linen while ironing to match the count of Gingerbread Linen.
Suggested Materials
- Gloriana silk #112 “Harvest Grape” - multi
- Dinky Dyes #072 “Cabernet” - purples
- Kreinik Mori #2066 - orange dk
- Kreinik Mori #8000 - white
- Needlepoint Inc. #556 - orange lt
- Specialty button - pirate skeleton
- Specialty button - top hat skeleton
- Specialty button - cowboy skeleton
- Specialty button - spider
- Specialty button - pumpkin
- Specialty button - bat
- Specialty button - candy corn (Discontinued)
- Specialty button - ghost flying down
- Specialty button - ghost flying up
- Specialty button - trick or treat ghost
- Specialty button - trick or treat bag
- Specialty button - Halloween word
- Specialty button - Jack-o-lantern - green hat
- Specialty button - plain skeleton
- Specialty button - pirate boy
- Specialty button - mummy boy
- Specialty button - pumpkin girl
- Specialty button - witch girl
- Kreinik Mori #8050 - black (4 - 5 yard skeins)
- DMC #8 Perle Cotton (thick twist) #310 - black
- Zweigart 28ct Cashel Linen
- Needles #10 short beading
- Needles #24 Tapestry
Stitches Used:
- Cross Stitch
- Back Stitch
- Satin Stitch Triangles
- French Knot
- Satin Stitches
- Fan Stitches
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