Heart Ornament Tutorial

Follow the step below to create a heart ornament keepsake.

1
You will need the following materials:
- Fabric: avoid stretchy, sheer, and slippery kinds. Tasteful designs in soft colors of pink, blue, green, white, and gold/yellow preferred.
- Embroidery floss in a coordinating color
- Ribbon in a coordinating color (1/8" or 1/4", about 3-5 inches)
- Needle
- Scissors
- Heart template: make your own by cutting a heart shape out of cardstock. Exact size does not matter.
- Stuffing: polyester fiberfill, pellets, beads, pillow stuffing, and wool are all fine. Avoid anything that could get clumpy (like cotton balls), or anything that would be damaged if wet (like rice).
2

Start with the heart template and two layers of fabric with wrong sides facing in towards each other.
3

Cut out the heart shape so that you are left with 2 pieces of fabric that back up to each other.
4

Fasten a ribbon to the wrong side of one of the hearts so that the ends will be hidden in the middle of the finished project.
5

Feed the thread back through the ribbon so that the border stitch pattern starts just above the middle top of the heart.
6
Sew the back panel to the front panel using a border stitch.
- This example shows a blanket stitch border, which works well for this project.
- Tutorials on this stitch or other patterns can be easily found online.
7

When most of the border is complete, pause to add stuffing.
8

You can use a pencil to poke the filling into every part of the heart. Use plenty so that the heart looks nice and plump.
9

When the border is complete, feed the needle through the middle of the heart in any direction.
10

Trim the excess string off and knead the stuffing until it has an even thickness throughout.