Gingerbread Cookie
Christmas Collection · paid pattern
- Level
- Intermediate
- Pieces
- 35 pieces
- Fabrics
- 4 fabrics
- Time at 8 in
- about 4 h 15 min
A big gingerbread cookie on a checked tablecloth. The checks are large squares, so it tucks quickly.
Christmas Collection
Gingerbread Cookie is one of 24 new Christmas designs
- All 24 patterns, each with colour guide, fabric list and cut maps for 8, 6 and 5 in boards
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Before you start
- Board size: best at 8 in. At 6 in, pieces 32, 35, 8, 30, 34 get narrower than 7 mm. Use 1 in thick XPS foam with a double-sided adhesive sheet, scored about ¼ in deep.
- Edge pieces: 14 of the 35 pieces touch the board edge (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 18, 22, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35). Cut them with about 1 in extra on the edge sides so the fabric wraps down the side, and remember a frame lip hides about ¼ in all round.
- Watch these pieces: 32 (8 mm), 35 (8 mm), 8 (8 mm), 30 (8 mm), 34 (8 mm) are the narrowest at 8 in. Give them a thin cotton, an extra-generous margin, and tuck them last.
- Tucking order: start with the big pieces 1, 4, 18, 22 and work in to the smallest (8, 32, 35). Tuck the front grooves as you go and wrap the board sides at the end.
Fabric list with cutting sizes
The numbered colour guide and the true-scale cut maps are in the PDF.
Sizes include ¼ in to tuck, and 1 in on sides that wrap the board edge. Rounded up to the next ¼ in.
| Fabric | Pieces | Biggest scrap | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A White | A White | 13 pieces: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 33 · 5 on the edge | 3¼ × 3¼ in77 sq in total | 77 sq in |
| B Tomato red | B Tomato red | 12 pieces: 1, 3, 7, 10, 18, 21, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35 · 9 on the edge | 3½ × 3¼ in80 sq in total | 80 sq in |
| C Rust | C Rust | 7 pieces: 5, 11, 13, 17, 24, 27, 28 | 4¾ × 3¼ in52 sq in total | 52 sq in |
| D Gold | D Gold | 3 pieces: 14, 15, 20 | 1¼ × 1¼ in5 sq in total | 5 sq in |
Every fabric fits in scraps: the largest single piece at this size is 4¾ in long. A fat quarter (FQ) is about 18 × 21 in.
How to make it
Full step-by-step guide
1Stick, print, tape
Stick a double-sided adhesive sheet on the foam, keep its liner on, then tape the cut map printed at 100 % on top.
8 × 8 in board, 1 in thick XPS
2Score every line
Cut through paper, liner and sheet along each line with a fresh #11 blade. Light strokes; angle the blade under sharp points.
Grooves about ¼ in (6 mm) deep
3Peel one piece at a time
Lift the paper and liner of one piece only. Keep a second print as your map: once the foam is bare, shapes look alike.
The paper piece is your template
4Cut the fabric
Lay the paper piece face up on the fabric and cut around it with a margin. Edge pieces need extra to wrap the side.
¼ to ½ in margin, edge pieces 1 in
5Tuck with light strokes
Press the fabric on the sticky shape and push its edges into the grooves with the flat back of a seam ripper, opposite sides in turn.
Trim to ⅛ in before the final push
6Big pieces first, edges last
Fill the background first and small details last, then finish the board edges. Push into corners, never away from them.
Simple 8 in board: about 1½ to 2 h
