Gingerbread house

This gingerbread house will become a great décor piece, Christmas tree toy, piggy bank or even a festive container/handbag to put some sweets or a present in.
It’s a very straightforward pattern, it took me a couple of evenings to make my gingerbread house. You’ve still got time to make one yourself in time for Christmas.
The pattern contains all possible versions of how to make the best use of one pattern and turn your gingerbread house into something else than just a little piece of décor.

This pattern is available in:
English (US crochet terms)
Deutsch

Crocheting level - intermediate.
The PDF-pattern consists of 15 pages and has more than 50 colored pictures.
Stitches (US-terminology):
ch – chain
st - stitch
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
inc – increase (2 sc in 1 st)
dec – decrease (single crochet two stitches together)

Techniques:
Magic Ring; basic crochet stitches; increase/decrease of stitches; crochet in continuous rounds, fasten off.

I made my gingerbread house from cotton yarn. It’s 9cm x 9cm x 3cm.
Tip: if you require a house of a bigger size, e.g. you want to use it as a container for a Christmas present, then I suggest you take thicker yarn and a bigger size crochet hook.

Cotton yarn of your choice. Yarn consumption will depend on its thickness. (I used about 20g of yarn)

• Brown cotton yarn (I used 400 m/100 g cotton yarn)
• A small amount of white cotton yarn (I used 400 m/100 g cotton yarn)
• Thin white cotton yarn (I used 600 m/100 g cotton yarn)
  Please mind that you will require 2 types of cotton yarn, one is 1.5 times thinner than the other.
• A crochet hook for thicker yarn (I used 1,25 mm crochet hook)
• A crochet hook thinner yarn (I used 1,0 mm crochet hook)
• A sewing needle
• White colour sewing cotton threads
• Hollow fiber toy/cushion filling
• Dense cardboard
• Dress making pins
• Scissors