Butterflies Inc. FELT PLAYHOUSE

Here is picture A of the garden, that you can pick your veges and fruit from.

Here is the front door, I am going to make the side of the door have hinges and hide some velcro under the scalloped edge to hold the door up(will post more pics)
I am showing you how to pin the special details to the house.


Instructions:
1. Measure your table top length and width + 1 inch to everyside
- for instance the length of my table is 62" so I added 2" on of the end so that I would be able to sew it to the sides of the house.
2. Measure the height from the floor to the table top.
3. after you have cut out all 4 sides and top(aka roof) you will proceed to cut out shapes for: door
windows 4 pieces of white 1 1/2" width about 14" tall
window flower box ~15"W x 4" H you can add an angle at the ends(optional)
flowers all sorts of colors felt- pipe cleaners to help stand up.
***will show tutorial for flower next post********
animals- owl,dog, cat, squirrel, bird,lizard......
Garden- dirt, tree, apples, leaves, carrots, lettuce, pumpkins, corn,etc.
Laundry- basket, lines
Mail box
Dog house, dog bowl, bone

***** WHEN PLACING DETAILS TO HOUSE LEAVE ROOM TO HEM THE BOTTOM OF HOUSE******
It is so much fun to be creative and see what you can come up with. I made it so it would be more like a quiet book, so most of the animals and food, mail box with letters and all can be taken off and easily put back on. You can sew on the felt or you can use Fabri-Tac, which is what I used and it seems to be working great!

Then the fun part begins and you piece it all together as in the last photo(above) Just lay everything on top of your "house" cut out pieces. You DO NOT want to cut anything out such as the DOOR, or the DOG HOUSE DOOR or the WINDOWS until you have put it all together and and have it on your table you may not like where you put it. Plus the extra layer helps it to be sturdy and strong.

1.When you start to sew the house together (after you have sewn all the details on all 4 sides and even the roof you you want) you want to start with one long side and the top "roof" of the house.
2. work your way around the house until you have all 4 sides sewn to the "roof" top piece.
3. place the unfinished house ontop of your table. making sure all widths, heights, and lengths are perfect. If you come across that your house is too long and bends at the bottom, that is ok, cut off from the top, sew it back on to the same spot and make a scallopped edge with the extra that you left on. LEAVE ROOM ON BOTTOM TO HEM** SEE PICTURES TO NOTICE THE SCALLOPED OVERHANGE ON TOP OF HOUSE. IT WILL BE RED.***
4. Now that all is measuring perfectly, return to your sewing machine and start to sew the sides of the house together, to enclose the house.
5. HEM the bottom of the house. Very important, it will help the house not stretch too much once five millions toddlers and older kids think that it is too cool and all jam pack themselves in.
6. Cut the doors, windows, etc..
7. glue on velcro, or sew
8. sew on netting for window screen (optional)
** I highly recommend this step because the love to stick there adorable heads through the holes of the windows. So, in order to stop getting there heads stuck or ripping of said felt window to shreds after you worked so hard, I would advise the netting(screen) for the window.
9. LET THEIR IMAGINATIONS GO WILD.

Have fun sewing!!
Oh, p.s. here is the site where I got my inspiration from thanks Jill, my kids love it.
http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2009/10/felt-playhouse.html