How to make my little love heart pillow.

How to make the little love heart shaped pillow

 

    

Would you like to know how to make this pretty heart shaped pillow? If so you have come to the right place, I do hope you enjoy following the finishing tutorial. 

Gather your supplies and lets get started!    

Materials required

Red and white craft felt 

DMC red and white thread

DMC green thread

Red ribbon for trim

Silver 'made with love' tag or any charm

Polyester filling

Cut out a 12cm square piece of red felt

Design your heart shape using paper first.

This heart measures 11cm from the base of the heart to the curve at the top, it does not matter what size your heart is as long as you can fit the word ' love' and the other hearts onto the felt.    

Cut two large red hearts

Cut one white heart slightly smaller than the large red one

Cut one small red heart 

Use two strands of thread for all of the stitching. 

Stitch the little red heart to the white heart using blanket stitch

Now stitch the white heart to the red heart using blanket stitch 

Stitch 'LOVE' in outline stitch

you can find a video here on the Needle N Thread blog.

I must admit I did not do mine exactly like the video shows but the 

video shows the correct way to do it! 

Now it is time to do the spider web roses, you can see how to

make these in my little round pincushion tutorial here

Stitch the leaves in green thread using lazy daisy stitch

Faby Reilly has a good tutorial on her blog  here for the lazy daisy stitch.

The front piece of your heart should now look like this

Stitch the front heart to the remaining red heart shape piece for the back using blanket stitch

Leave a gap for stuffing the pillow

Continue stitching the blanket stitch until the heart is closed.

Your heart is nearly complete, you are now ready to trim with red ribbon and attach your charm.

Or you could always trim with matching cord made from DMC thread.

You can see a finishing tutorial showing

how to make the cord trim here

Your heart is now finished.

Here is the same set in a different colour for Mother's Day.

Other information surrounding this project can be found on my blog here at

This set was designed by me, it is for personal use only, please do not resell my designs on Etsy or any other sales website - please respect my copyright.  

Happiness is cross stitching.

Enjoy!

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Finishing tutorial for a loveheart shaped pillow.