Villagers from Tostock near Bury St Edmunds have made giant gingerbread house and Christmas tree out of crochet

Creative Suffolk villagers have spent months crafting a stunning 6ft gingerbread house - out of crochet.

The festive decoration, made up of 362 crocheted squares and 192 roof tiles and adorned with sweets, candy canes and cookies, has been unveiled in Tostock, near Bury St Edmunds.

It was made by a group of 16 villagers who came together in January and decided to create the imaginative design.

Last year, they made a 13ft Christmas tree from crochet and the two eye-catching sculptures sit side by side on the village green.

Organiser Nicki Callow bought 72 balls of gingerbread-coloured wool and distributed them to the volunteers to make the six-inch squares.

She said: "I put a plastic box by my front door with more supplies and they dropped off their squares as and when and by around June or July time, they had done all the squares so we started sewing them together.

"We've been decorating it since then and three men in the village have made the frame and it's all come together nicely.

"We're a small village, there's only around 400 residents, and it's just people coming together, creating something lovely and forming a lovely group.

"I've received some lovely comments on it, and if you go out into the village, there's always someone looking at it and taking photos."