Free Crochet Gingerbread House Purse – Day 8 of the Advent Calendar MCAL 2024
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This adorable crochet gingerbread house purse is the sweetest addition to your collection of winter accessories – perfect for running holiday errands.
It’s time to celebrate day 8 of the Advent Calendar Mystery Crochet Along. If this is your first time here, then you might not know what I’m talking about. Well, it’s this really fun and festive event where I release a pattern or a stitch tutorial every day from the 1st of December until Christmas Eve!
Today’s post is the 4th free project of the event – a crochet gingerbread house purse that you will want to take with you on all of your holiday errands. This pattern uses the Tunisian crochet brick stitch tutorial that was posted yesterday, so be sure to check it out if you haven’t already.
The Tunisian crochet brick stitch creates the perfect walls for your crochet gingerbread house purse using two different shades of brown yarn. We will also be using the crocodile stitch to create the frosting shingles for the roof.
Just like the gingerbread house-building kits you can buy at the store (minus the calories) the most fun part of this project is the decorating! Unlike those kits, you won’t have to worry about this project going stale.
So let’s get started!
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As you may know, this collection also includes another pattern using the crochet knit stitch. It’s the Tunisian Crochet Brick Stitch Placemat. That pattern is currently only available in the ebook “Last Minute Crochet Gifts Made Easy Vol 3”.
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Get the PDF of the Crochet Gingerbread House Purse
This pattern is also available as an ad-free, printer-friendly pdf pattern that can be purchased at the links below for only a small fee.
So, let me now give you the supplies you need in order to make this easy crochet pillow pattern.
How To Make the Crochet Gingerbread House Purse
Materials you will need
- Lion Brand Pound of Love Yarn (worsted, 454g/1020yds)
- White
- Lion Brand Heartland Yarn (worsted, 142g/251yd)
- Sequoia – Color A
- Lion Brand Basic Stitch Yarn (worsted, 100g/185yds)
- Adobe – Color B
- WeCrochet Fairy Tale Yarn (super bulky, 100g, 71 yds)
- Eisbar
- WeCrochet Brava Worsted Yarn (worsted, 100g/218g)
- Grass
- Canary
- White
- 5.5 mm hook – Tunisian Crochet Hook
- 4 + 3.75mm hook – WeCrochet Dots Hook
- Michaels Christmas Stickers (here)
- Hot Glue Sticks with Hot Glue Gun
- Michaels Garland Ties
- Scissors
- tapestry needle
- Rotary cutter and cutting board
- Plastic canvas
- 2 front/back pieces: 9.75 x 8 inch
- 1 bottom piece: 9.75 x 5 inches
- 2 sides pieces: 5 x 8 inches
- 2 roof pieces: 10.5 x 4 inches
- Cotton Fabric (I got a white with silver snowflakes one from JoAnn)
- 2 side pieces: 6 x 9 inches
- 1 long piece: 35 x 11.5 inches
Gauge
4 sts x 3 rows = 1 square inch
Size
11 x 12 x 5.5 inches
Stitches used in the pattern
Learn all the basic crochet stitches HERE (US crochet terms)
- st/sts = stitch/stitches
- ch = chain
- sl st = slip stitch (I use the invisible sl st – learn it here)
- sc = single crochet
- dc = double crochet
- TSS = Tunisian Simple Stitch
- FPTDC = Front Post Tunisian Double Stitch
- Crocodile stitch
- tr = treble crochet
Tunisian Crochet Brick Stitch Video Tutorial
Before you start crocheting the Crochet Gingerbread House Purse, you’ll need to know how to crochet the Tunisian brick stitch.
Find the Video, Photo, and Written Tutorial for Tunisian Brick Stitch Here
You will also need the following tutorial:
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Free Crochet Gingerbread House Purse Pattern
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Instructions for the Crochet Gingerbread House Purse
Bag Body
Ch 121
Color A
R1-F: start from the 2nd ch from the hook and pull up a loop from each chain (to make TSS – Tunisian Simple Stitches).
R1-R: yarn over pull through 1 loop, yarn over and pull through 2 loops for the rest of the row, change colors during the last yarn over and pull through
INSTRUCTIONS continued:
Color B
R2-F: 1 TSS per st
R2-R: repeat R1-R
Color A
R3-F: *1 TSS in 3 sts, 1 FPTDC (Front Post Tunisian Double Crochet – 2 rows down around the 2 vertical bars of one stitch), repeat from * until the end, last st is a TSS (edge st)
R3-R: repeat R1-R
Color B
R4: repeat R2
Color A
R5-F: 1 TSS, 1 FPTDC, *1 TSS in 3 sts, 1 FPTDC (Front Post Tunisian Double Crochet – 2 rows down around the 2 vertical bars of one stitch), repeat from * until the last 2 sts, 1 TSS in each
R5-R: repeat R1-R
Repeat R2-5 for the pattern until you have 8 inches, finish with 1 sl st per st. Fasten off and block project.
Fold in half and sew short ends together.
Bag Bottom
Using the Adobe Color
Ch 41, start from 2nd ch from the hook
R1-23: 1 sc per st, turn
Roof (2 pieces) in white
Ch 45 with 3.75 mm hook
R1: Dc in the third chain from the hook. *Ch 2 and skip 2 chains. Make 2 dc in the next chain. Rep from * to end of row.
R2: Ch 3. Working down first dc post, make 4 dc. Ch 1 and rotate your work so you can work up the other double crochet post. Work 5 dc up that dc. *Ch 1 and skip the next group of 2 dc. Work 5 dc down the first dc of that next group. Ch 1 and rotate. Work 5 dc up the next dc of the same group. Rep from * to end of row.
R3: Ch 3. Dc in the center of the scale. *Ch 2 and work 2 dc in the middle of the next group (underneath the scales). Ch 2 and work 2 dc in the middle of the next scale. Rep from * to end of row.
R4: Ch 1. Skip the first group of 2 dc. Work 5 dc down the first dc of that next group. Ch 1 and rotate. Work 5 dc up the next dc of the same group. *Ch 1 and skip the next group of 2 dc. Work 5 dc down the first dc of that next group. Ch 1 and rotate. Work 5 dc up the next dc of the same group. Rep from * to end of row. Ch 1 and sl st to chain space.
R5: Ch 3 and dc in same space. *Ch 2 and work 2 dc in the middle of next scale. Ch 2 and work 2 dc in the middle of next group (underneath the scales). Rep from * across.
Repeat rows 2-5 until you reached your desired length.
4 Windows – in Canary
Ch 8, start from 2nd ch from the hook
R1-6: 1 sc per st, turn
Door – in Grass
Ch 10, start from 2nd ch from the hook
R1-10: 1 sc per st, turn
R11: skip 4 sts, 12 tr in the 5th sts, sl st in the last st, fasten off.
Assembly
Sew the bottom to the main body. Keeping the Tunisian Crochet pieces seam to a corner of the bag bottom.
Now focus on the insert (fabric plus plastic canvas).
Lay the ironed fabric wrong side up and place the plastic canvas pieces on top.
First do the side ones. So cut each corner (fabric and plastic canvas) diagonally, then fold each overhanging fabric over the plastic canvas and hot glue together.
Once you’re done with the side pieces, focus on the big main piece.
Cut the corners again for the fabric and plastic canvases. AND once laid out (this order: roof, side, bottom, side, roof), cut little triangles where the connection from one plastic canvas to another is (separated by 0.25inches), like this:
Be aware the rooftop pieces are bit larger than the rest of the pieces, so your cut out triangles may be larger on sides pieces.
Now, hot glue all overlapping fabric to the plastic canvases (I also hot glued the plastic canvas to the fabric too (so the center parts, not just the edges).
Once you’re done, you have 3 pieces like the following image.
Place the long large piece inside the crochet bag (plastic canvas side to the inside crochet, hot glue or sew together.
Lay the side pieces to the inside of the bag as well, hot glue to the crochet and also the edges of the main piece (so it doesn’t move around).
Now, sew the rooftop pieces to the top front and back panel, then sew or hot glue the plastic canvas to the rooftop pieces.
Now it’s time to decorate the Gingerbread House.
Sew the garland ties to the rooftop, sew or hot glue the fairy tale yarn to the ALL the edges of the Gingerbread house.
Add (glue, crochet or sew) white yarn pieces (as a + sign) to the windows. Sew or hot glue the windows and door to the gingerbread house.
Finally add (I hot glued them) 3D stickers (or crochet and sew them on) all over the Gingerbread house. See the images below.
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If you like gingerbread and Christmas themed crochet patterns, you might like these also:
- Gingerbread Man Bookmark
- Gingerbread House Tissue Box Cover
- Gingerbread House
- Fair Isle Christmas Stocking
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