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EDITOR’S NOTE: This pattern is no longer available for free, but you can purchase it for $5 from the designer.
Meet Maggie. Maggie the Taggie Owl, that is. She’s a cute little taggie blanket made for small hands to hold. She has small ribbon tags around her body, and a soft faux fur backing. She’d make a sweet gift to welcome a new baby! Suzanne from Just Another Hangup shares a free pattern and tutorial for making one. Get the pattern and tutorial.
[photo from Just Another Hangup]
I am just smitten with this felt gingerbread house bag. This would make such a sweet special Christmas accessory for a kid. It’s a free pattern at Benzie Design, designed by Gracie from Hello Gracie Makes. It’s packed with adorable gingerbread house details, like swirls and stripes and scallops adoring the doors and windows.
And while all those details might seem like this would be a complicated pattern, it’s actually not. The bag itself is made from felt, which makes finishes edges unnecessary. (All of those scalloped edges are just cut from felt, no edge finishing required.) The strap is super simple, made from rope with knotted ends. And all those details are made with some basic hand embroidery stitches. Sparkle felt makes it extra cute.
The striped scallop roof is actually the top flap of the bag. A magnetic snap makes it a secure closure. The rope straps are attached through felt loops at the side of the bag.
They rate this project as an intermediate level, and it should take about 6 hours to make start to finish. That’s doable for a Saturday project or a couple of evenings. Full color photos step you through the entire process.
The project includes a shopping list for all of your supplies. They’ve got a shop so you can order all of them from Benzie if you like and get exactly the supplies used in the project. I noticed it includes a pair of scallop shears, which makes cutting all the scalloped edges for the roof and around the door a breeze.
Finished dimensions of the little felt gingerbread bag are approximately 6 ½” wide x 7 ½” tall. That’s the perfect size to hold a small book, a small toy, or a notepad and some cute pens.
Go to Benzie Design to get the tutorial and free pattern for the felt gingerbread house bag.
Your headline reads “FREE” Pattern and then you say for $5 I can get the pattern. Sounds like a bait and switc
This is an older post. When I originally published it (2012), it was a free pattern. Since then, the designer has moved it to her shop where it is available for sale. It was not intended as a bait-and-switch, at least not on my part (and I wouldn’t think on the author’s part, either.) I have no financial relationship with the designer. I receive no compensation for any of her sales. I have added a note to the post here at Craft Gossip saying that this is now a “for sale” pattern. –Anne