Mini Take-Along Doll House

UPDATE:
3/10/2020

I have had a lot of readers contact me about not being able to access the tutorial for this project. It appears UK Lass has made her blog private. That's unfortunate because she had such a great tutorial. I wish I had included a tutorial here on my blog at the time, but that's all in the past. I have however come across this pattern guide. Hopefully it can help give you some guidelines to attempt the project on your own.

I'm really excited to share this project with you.

I've mentioned that I've been thinking up ideas for a while now to keep the kids busy while traveling this summer. I thought it would be so fun to have a little doll house that my daughter could bring along. Something small. Something that could be folded up and then easily put together when we were ready for play.


This is what I came up with:

It turns out that I wasn't the only one with this idea. After coming up with the idea for this little portable doll house I was trying to figure out the details of how I was actually going to construct it. As I was browsing around online one day I came across UK Lass in US and her fabulous tutorial showing me how to make exactly what I had dreamed up. Amazing.

Thanks Dawn! (You'll thank her too if you ever make one.) See her tutorial HERE. It is really great. These are so easy to make. Anyone with basic sewing skills can do it.

And I loved her idea for using the plastic canvas to make the house sturdy. I would have never thought of that. It worked perfect.

Here's the outside:

The inside:

I debated weather or not to add any furniture to the house. Last minute I decided to just do it, but tried to keep it simple. It's more fun with furniture. Don't you think?

. . . And a little fridge that you can actually open up!

Ready for travel??? Just undo the buttons and it folds up nice and flat to put in your bag.

Bring along in the car or airplane and once you get going, put your little house together and you're ready to play.

Here's the happy home for the happy little family . . .

I did make a few changes from what UK Lass did.

• She sewed the back sides up. I added an extra button and loop on the back so that it can be made flat when done playing.
• I fused my batting (I used Warm & White--it's nice and thin) to my fabric with wonder under and left an opening to slide my plastic canvas inside after I had sewed each fabric piece and turned it right side out.
• On the long main piece, after putting in each canvas piece, I sewed along the edge of the canvas, through all layers of fabric, to secure each one.
• For the furniture I used felt and applied it like I did here.

Does that make any sense at all???
If you have any questions please let me know.

And stay tuned . . . next week I'll be showing you the mini travel toy that I made for my son to take along.