My Gingerbread House Pattern Collection
New for December 2009: I just redid the Santa's Tugboat instructions as well as adding a two new patterns, Santa's Workshop, and Gingerbread Dream Home (see both at bottom of the page).
I've been collecting Gingerbread Patterns over the the last 20+ years. A lot of them come from old issues of Good Housekeeping. Some of you may remember when their November or December issue featured their Gingerbread House contest winner on the cover--sigh...I miss those days.
You can download the PDFs of the pictures and instructions and feel free to pass them along or send people to this website page. These are all FREE since I'm not the original designer and some of them are so charming and wonderful I thought you might like to have them as well. You need Adobe Acrobat reader as they are all in PDF format (unless noted otherwise).
Feel free to leave me a comment at the bottom of this page on these patterns, you can leave a link to your photos if you make any of these. ENJOY!
And
if you need any gingerbread inspiration click
here to view photos of gingerbread houses, many of them from past
Good Housekeeping gingerbread contests. I'll keep adding to it as I
have the time.
NEW!
Little Gingerbread Cottage: This charming little cottage, from the
December 1990 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine, features a red licorice
roof. Be sure to read all the directions before you start and remember,
they don't always give you all the pattern pieces---they give you instructions
for additional pieces you have to measure out yourself. Enjoy! Click
on the small photo for larger view. Click
here for the PDF directions.
Gingerbread Swan King: I finally finished my gingerbread swan--I recreated the pattern I lost (found it in a woman's magazine 30+ years ago). I just finished up the patterns and the instructions which you can download here (you need PDF reader). Let me know if you have any questions at jkeeler415@costumepastimes.com and send me a picture and I'll include it here. You can click on the picture to the right for a larger view.
Gingerbread
Angels Cookies -- (3 different patterns): these are about 10"
high and based on the angel ornaments used on the Metropolitan Museum
of Art Christmas tree. Click
here for instructions. Click
here for Photo 1, click
here for Photo 2.
Santa's
Tugboat: As of December 5, 2009 I updated the Santa's tugboat instructions
and recipie. It's more complete and I re-typed it so it's much easier
to read. Click here
for the PDF file.
Gingerbread
Dollhouse: click
here for instructions. Click
here for pattern. I've actually made this one before. Click
here to see my photo.
Icing
Church: I finally remade this church this year--hoorah! Click
here for instructions, its a big file so please be patient The pattern
is actual size so it's ready to use. Click
here to see a larger photo of the Church and click
here to see the one I made in the 1980s..
.
Gingerbread
Train: click
here for instructions and pattern, is a really big file so please
be patient.
Gingerbread
Swiss Chalet: This was the project that got me started in gingergbread
35 years ago--simple and sweet and very, very easy. Click
here for instructions (sorry, its a big file) and click
here for the pattern. Here are more photos when I made it again
last year: Photo
1, Photo
2, Photo
3, Photo
4.
Santa's
Workshop: Just finished transcribing this one for 2009. This pattern
came from the same issue that featured the Gingerbread Train and Santa's
Tugboat. Hope you enjoy. Click
here for the PDF instructions and photo.
Gingerbread
Dream Home: This is from the Good Housekeeping issues from December
1988--a nice fairlytale house in the woods, all dressed up for the holidays
with candles, wreath, and red-and-white striped carpet to welcome your
many guests. Click
here for the PDF instructions and photo.