If you need a quick and easy gift for Valentine's Day (or any other holiday) then get out your needles, some embroidery floss, a pair of old jeans and a little bit of quilt batting because it's so easy to create these cute little recycled hearts.
I don't use an embroidery hoop so I start by cutting out two denim hearts. If you like to use the hoop, you'll need to draw your heart on the denim, leaving enough to fit in your hoop. Mine measure 3 1/2" wide by 3" tall but you can make your hearts as big (or as small) as you like.
Next, grab your embroidery needle and the embroidery floss in the color you choose and use a stem stitch to embroider whatever you want on your heart. I usually freehand a word or a saying and then add a little something to give it a bit more color or to fill it in more.
On the heart above, I stitched the word LOVE and the small red flower before assembling the heart.
After you embroider your heart, place one plain denim heart face down on your table, cut a heart shaped piece of batting and place it on the face down heart. Now, take your pretty little embroidered heart and place it, face up, on top of the batting.
At this point, you can pin your three pieces together (I never pin because I've been stuck on more than one occasion).
Now just whip stitch around the three layers. I also added a little running stitch just inside of the whipstitch to give it a bit of a quilted look.
Add a piece of embroidery floss for a hanger and tada!!! Look how crafty (not to mention thrifty) you are!
You can make your hearts simple like these:
Or you can get a little crazy like this:
However you decide, they are sure to be loved. :)
If you have any questions, just let me know in the comments and I'll answer asap. And, if you don't have time to make your own this year, I have some in my shop (yep, I love making these and can't seem to stop).
I hope you enjoy these fun little hearts.
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