Roofline

After making several houses the pointed roofline can get a little boring.  So I tried a flat roofline as follows. 
 
After attaching the roof fabric to the beam as before take a piece of sky fabric about twice as deep as the roof material and place it above the roof with the seam edges overlapping about half an inch.  Don't sew it yet.

Find the top centre point of the sky fabric and mark with a soft pencil. 

There is to be a cut from 1/2" beyond the beam edges at an angle up to the marked point at the top of the sky on both sides of the roof.  This will give the roof its shape.  Try out different positions using your rulers until you find the roof shape you like.

Mark these lines so that you can gauge where to put the chimney.  Make a little chimney and pin this in place at the seam between the top of the roof and bottom of sky before joining the seam as shown in the photo above. The chimney can be finished by hand later.

The next stage is to cut on these lines to produce a shaped roof and a pointed bit of sky but we need a larger piece of sky behind it first.  This larger piece of sky should be as high as the top marked point and deep enough to extend down to where the two cuts will finish at the sides of the house.

The photo illustrates how it should look after the cuts are made.  There will be a triangular shaped bit of sky behind the roof to be removed.

Now these sky seams have to be joined - see photos below.