Fabric Barn

What do you get when you combine a thin red Delta blanket with a diaper box? A barn of course... right? Here is how its done....

 get a diaper box, or any thick cardboard box for that matter, this one had some pretty convenient creases so I chose it, the two white flaps for the side were flaps on a diaper box.

 I wanted a barn type of top so I took the corners off the tops of my flaps/sides.

 measuring where it should be

 The roof of the barn is made up of two pieces, one larger piece with a crease that I had to make, the other a flap cut to the right size.

 where the delta blanket comes into play

 I didn't feel like making this harder than it needed to be so I just cut around the whole thing leaving enough space for hot gluing the blanket to the box.

 I cut into where the corners could be so it would be a tighter fit.

 this is how it looked when it was put into the box shape- it had been hot glued except for the tops of all four sides.

 for the green grass area I used another blanket that had already been cut up for some other project, to make it softer I used a square of leftover white felt batting I had left over from making insulating curtains 2 yrs ago.

 I did end up sewing the green grass to the red top of the side but not down the sides I glued them. I used a piece of jean for the pond, I hot glued it on there then sewed around it by hand because my kid likes to pick things off.

 This pic has the barns roof that I sewed a dark gray fabric cover for, but since I didn't have very much dark gray I used jean material for the underside. I stitched a pocket for the smaller piece to go into so they didn't fall into each other all of the time. on the raw edge I machine sewed it together as close as possible to the edge, it isn't beautiful but it also isn't that noticeable.

 I hand stitched the roof onto the backside of the barn first, then after I hand stiched the two sides to the back I stitched the rest of the roof.

 I wanted him to have a handle so I machine sewed a white ribbon to the tops of the sides then folded and glued the rest of the fabric down on the inside.

 I cut more pieces of red for the inside of the barn and hot glued them in.

 with everything together I hand stitched the sides to each other and to the roof.

 bad picture I know, but the two white squares are Velcro for the front panel, the top roof flap is flipped up, I didn't want to sew or Velcro it because it would make it difficult to shut the front panel, and its fun to have a flap.

Finally I used the white ribbon to put a window on the side of the barn and a door on the front of the barn, all with the glue gun.