(cheating) felt hearts

February 13th, 2012
Categories: Making things

There is a good cheating way of making little felted hearts for Valentines Day. The trick is to knit them first and the trick with knitting is to use patterns you find on Natural Suburbia because they are so easy and delightful. You can find Linda’s knitted heart pattern here.

So once you’ve knitted your heart and stuffed it, wrap it with tufts of wool roving and needlefelt a new surface for it, being careful to protect its shape.

I strung my hearts with wooden buttons because that is fun.

And here they are…

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[I have linked this post at CraftoManiac, Summit Street Joy, Sew Can Do and I heart nap time.]

 
 

3 Responses to “(cheating) felt hearts”

  • Linda
    February 13, 2012 at 4:03 pm

    Dear Anna,
    These felted hearts are so clever and look so beautiful. Thanks for sharing and for linking to my blog:)
    Have a wonderful day.
    Warmly
    Linda

  • brigit
    February 13, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    These are cute and they look like they might use less roving than solid felting which is good

    I was starting to think you weren’t going to make things anymore!!!

  • Emily
    February 15, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Those are really sweet – the wooden buttons add such a perfect finishing touch, they MAKE the heart.

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