This design has been specially digitized for tearaway stabilizer. After the stabilizer is removed, beautiful fabric and embroidery remains.

You will notice that cutaway stabilizer is also used in this design. This is to provide more structure and stability once the entire tissue box cover is assembled.

When you download the tissue box house design, you will find multiple files. Some are embroidery files and others are dieline files marked with the letters "DL". Dielines are used to cut the fabric to the correct shape and size. Open and print each dieline file using embroidery software. If you do not have embroidery software, take a look at our helpful video on using dielines.

First, spray one side of a piece of cutaway stabilizer with temporary adhesive. Smooth the stabilizer onto the wrong side of all the fabric pieces.

Then, spray the backside of the printed dieline pieces with temporary adhesive and smooth them onto the right side of the fabric. For this design, every fabric piece of every file needs to have cutaway stabilizer (do this for both the front and back pieces).

Cut the dieline shapes out of the adhered fabric and cutaway stabilizer. Remove the paper dieline.

Hoop a piece of tearaway stabilizer firmly. Make sure it is nice and tight with no wrinkles.

Attach the hoop onto the machine and load the first embroidery file (not the dieline files).

Use a 75/11 sharp sewing needle instead of an embroidery needle. The sharp sewing needle has a finer point and it will make smaller perforations in the stabilizer.

Now you can embroider the design! The first thing to embroider will be the "front piece dieline" (or outline stitch). This marks the area on the stabilizer where the fabric piece will be placed.

After the dieline has sewn, remove the hoop from the machine but do not unhoop the stabilizer. Spray the stabilizer side of the front fabric piece with temporary adhesive. Smooth the front fabric piece onto the stabilizer inside of the sewn dieline.

Then place the hoop back onto the machine and embroider the tackdown for the front fabric piece. The tackdown will hold the fabric piece in place for the remainder of the design.

After the front fabric piece is in place, all of the inner details of the embroidery will sew out. Stop before sewing the "back piece tackdown" step.

Before sewing the "back piece tackdown" step, remove the hoop from the machine and turn it over so the back side of the embroidery is facing up. Spray the stabilizer side of the back fabric piece with temporary adhesive and smooth it into place on the back side of the embroidery.

Then place the hoop back onto the machine and embroider the "back piece tackdown". This will adhere the back piece in place on the back side of the hooped stabilizer. For this design, you only need to match bobbins if desired. The bobbin sides of the pieces will not be easily visible once the tissue cover is assembled.

Follow the color change sheet to embroider the remaining steps in the design. This will include the outer borders and the embroidered tabs.

After embroidering, tear away the excess stabilizer from around the piece.

Many of the pieces also have small openings between the fabric pieces and the embroidered tabs. Use a small scissor or teasers to remove the small pieces of stabilizer from these areas.

Repeat the above steps to embroider all the pieces (files "a"-"f"). To make a completed building, embroider two of the sides (file "b"), two of the chimney fronts (file "d"), and two of the chimney sides (files "e"), and two of the roof pieces (file "f"). Make sure to place cutaway on the back of every single fabric piece as it will make the building pieces sturdy enough to hold themselves up when completed.

Once all pieces are stitched out, it is time to assemble the design.

In this tutorial, we used glue and embroidered glue tabs for assembly. If preferred, however, you can hand sew all the pieces together in the same order as listed below. Simply use thread matching the embroidery, and sew the pieces together along the outer borders, ignoring the glue tabs.

To make gluing the building together as easy as possible, glue tabs have been included in the embroidery files. These will embroider with the rest of the design along the edges of the pieces.

To use these tabs, simply apply a generous amount of glue on the tab. For best results, glue long tabs in small sections, so the glue does not dry faster than you can line up the pieces.

Once the glue is on the tabs, place the tabs against the wrong side of the appropriate adjacent piece where it will not be seen. Make sure to line up the inner edge of the glue tab (the edge closest to the small connecting lines) with the outer edge of the other piece. This will leave a small gap between the pieces where you can see the small connecting lines. This creates a hinge of sorts and allows for the pieces to fold easily where needed. Always hold the pieces together until the glue dries.

To begin assembly, take the front piece (file "a") and place glue along the right tab.

Then glue the front piece (file "a") onto the left side of either side piece (file "b" ). The glued tab should be attached to the wrong side of the side piece (file "b"). Make sure to line up the top and bottom outer edges and leave a small gap for folding. The right sides of both pieces should be facing the same way.

Then place glue along the right side tab of the connected side piece (file "b").

Now take the back piece (file "c") and attach it to the glued tab of file "b". The tab should be glued to the wrong side of the back piece. Make sure to line up both the top and bottom edges, and leave a small gap for folding. The right sides of all three pieces should be facing the same way.

Next, place glue along the right tab of the back piece (file "c"), and glue that tab along the left side of the second side piece (file "b"). Make sure to line up the top and bottom edges and leave a small gap for folding. The right sides of all four pieces should be facing the same way.

Then place glue along the right tab of the second side piece (file "b"). Glue that tab onto the left side of the front piece (file "a"). This will make the four pieces into a 3D box. Make sure to line up the top and bottom edges, and leave a small gap for folding. All tabs should be hidden inside the box.

Some 3D tissue box house designs (like the 3D greenhouse) do not have a chimney. If this is the case, you can skip the next ten steps, starting where the two larger roof pieces are connected to one another.

To make the chimney, take one of the front chimney pieces (file "d"), and place glue on the right tab.

Glue that tab onto the left edge of either chimney side piece (file "e") with the tab on the wrong side. Make sure to line up the top and bottom edges and leave a small gap for folding. It is important to make sure that the chimney side piece is upright and that you do not mistake the top for the left side as they look similar. In the end, the two tabs should be on the bottom and right side.

Then spread glue on the right tab of the side piece (file "e"), and glue it onto the left side of the second chimney front piece (file "d") with the tab on the wrong side. Make sure to line up the top and bottom edges and leave a small gap for folding. The right sides of all three pieces should be facing the same way.

Repeat to spread glue on the right tab of the second chimney front piece (file "d"). Glue that tab onto the left edge of the second side piece (file "e") with the tab on the wrong side. Make sure that this pieces is upright, match up the edges, and leave a small gap for folding. The right sides of all four pieces should be facing the same way.

Then place glue along the right tab of the second Chimney side piece (file "e"). Glue that tab onto the left side of the first chimney front piece (file "d") forming the four pieces into a 3D box. Make sure to line up the top and bottom edges, and leave a small gap for folding.

Next, place glue onto either of the bottom tabs of the chimney side pieces (file "e").

Then slide the chimney into the cut out of either roof piece (file "f"), and glue the tab onto the wrong side of the roof once it's in place.

The roof has 2 small tabs in the cut out that will be attached to the chimney. Place glue on one of them.

Then fold it under and glue it onto the wrong side of the adjacent chimney's front piece (file "d").

When lining up the roof and chimney, it is important that the top edge (that will be the peak of the roof) lines up with the point of the indent on the front chimney piece.

Then repeat to glue the second small tab onto the opposite front piece (file "d") of the chimney. Make sure the tab is glued to the wrong side, and match up the roof's top edge with the indented point on the chimney.

Then repeat the last four steps to slide the chimney into the second roof piece (file "f"), and glue the last tab of the chimney onto the wrong side of the second roof. Also glue the two small tabs of the second roof piece onto the wrong side of the chimney. Make sure to match up the top edge of the roof to the point of the indent on the chimney.

Then locate either of the remaining tabs on the roof pieces (file "f"), and spread glue on just one of the tabs.

Fold the tab under so that it will be hidden, and glue it to the opposite roof edge to create half of the roof's peak. Make sure to match up the corners, and leave a small gap as needed to allow the peak to have a slight fold.

Repeat to glue the remaining roof tab onto the adjacent roof edge, creating the other half of the roof's peak. Make sure to match up the corners, and leave a small gap as needed to allow the peak to have a slight fold.

On the front piece of the building (file "a"), place glue on one of the top two tabs.

Match up the peak of the roof pieces (either side of the roof is fine as they are both the same) with the top point of the front piece. This is very important as it allows the whole roof to be aligned & sit properly. Then glue the tab onto the wrong side of the roof. The edges should line up with a small gap as needed for folding. The roof should also slightly overhang past the right edge of the front piece (file "b").

Repeat to glue the second top tab of the front piece (file "a") onto the wrong side of the roof as well. Make sure the peaks of the roof and front piece are matching up nicely so the roof slightly overhangs on both sides. Leave a small gap as needed to allow the peak to have a slight fold.

Then repeat the previous steps to glue the two top tabs of the back piece (file "C") onto the opposite side of the roof. Again it is very important to match the peak of the roof up with the top point of the back piece. This will ensure that the roof is lined up correctly. Leave a small gap as needed to allow the peak to have a slight fold.

There is a tab on the top edge of both side pieces (file "b"). Place glue along it. For these tabs, only a small amount of glue is needed (such as just 3-5 dots of glue across the width of the tab)

Then glue that tab onto the underside of the roof. The edges should not match up perfectly, and the roof should hang slightly past the side piece. This tab adds stability to the whole building.

Repeat to glue the opposite top tab on the other side piece onto the roof. Again, the edges should not match up perfectly, and the roof should hang slightly past the side piece.

Now that the your 3D tissue box house is completed, slide it over any standard square tissue box and pull the tissues up so they are coming out of the chimney.