ONLINE MINIATURE NEEDLEPOINT EMBROIDERY TUTORIALS

These tutorials were originally written to help people who had bought my dollhouse needlepoint kits – they show you how to do the stitching and assemble each type of kit. In November 2024 I retired, so these pages are now a ‘legacy archive’ only. I NO LONGER SELL THESE KITS, so please do not contact me asking where you can buy them! I plan to keep these tutorials available until at least the end of 2026, so that people who bought kits but haven’t made them up yet have a while to use the tutorials to complete their kits  🙂

The standard scale for adult doll’s houses is 1:12, which means one inch to one foot. It is commonly called ‘one twelfth scale’. In this scale, a dolls house doll of a 5′ 6″ high adult stands about 5 ½ inches high (dolls of small children, as illustrated below, being smaller, of course! ).

Other Scales

1:24 scale, which is half an inch to one foot, is another doll’s house scale which is sometimes used for adult collectors’ houses – in this scale, a dolls house doll stands about 2 ¾ inches high. Children’s doll’s houses are usually made to 1:16 scale. The dolls for these houses are about 4 ¼ inches high.