Felt Badge Heart

Day #171
Heart #154

This is a heart I made recently for a personal swap on Craftster.  It is made of wool felt and embroidery floss, and glass beads.  It is a copy of one I saw on my partner's Pinterest, and as with all my felt hearts, it is entirely hand sewn.  It is just under 3" in width.

Cats

Day #166
Hearts #148-150

I wasn't pleased with my first cat-face heart scissors fob, so I made a few more!

I started by sketching the faces on a scrap of paper.  Then I cut the felt free-hand, and embroidered the details, looking at my drawing as a guide.

This is my favorite! 

Strawberry

Day #163
Heart #144

The fruit just keeps on coming!  Today it's a strawberry heart scissors fob.

Citrus

Day #162
Hearts #141-143

I have three bright and summery citrus-fruit-themed scissors fob hearts today!

Lime, lemon, and orange.  Yum!

Bookmarks

Day #21
Hearts #26-27

One of my inspiration pictures in December was of a heart-shaped bookmark.  I've been eager to try making some, and I finally had some time for it yesterday.  Here are the two I made:

The hearts are about 5 1/2" long, and the tails (which are made of braided embroidery floss) are about 6 1/2" long.

I used Heat n Bond Lite to adhere the inner heart to the base heart, then machine-stitched around the edge. 

I feel like they could use a little more "something", so next time I will try hand-embroidering a blanket stitch around the edge of the inner heart, like the one in the inspiration photo.  That would give better definition to the edge of the inner heart, and add some color.  But I am happy with these--I love the size, shape, weight and overall look of them.

Since these could be made in any color and with any fabrics, it would be easy to personalize them.  They would be great little gifts--I'm going to keep these in mind!

Heart Charm

Day #2
Heart #2

I made this tiny heart to be a charm on one of my scrappy braided fabric bracelets.  Hopefully I will get the bracelet finished today and post it on my other blog tomorrow.  (UPDATE:  the bracelet is now posted HERE.)

This heart is made of purple wool felt, with seed beads for the flower, and cotton embroidery floss for the leaves and the blanket stitch around the edge.

This is the other side (looks pretty much the same!).  I added the jump ring so I can put it on a bracelet.

Bookmark Heart

This is a totally new use for a heart--a bookmark!  Artfully Sew on Etsy was really thinking outside the box when she came up with this idea.  I love the little tail of embroidery floss.  These would make nice little gifts to include in a card or letter, or as an "extra" in a Craftster swap.