Felt Heart Embroidered Ornament

With less than a week until Valentine’s Day, you might not have time to embroider a large project but there’s still time to take some of the small designs in today’s vintage Workbasket pattern sheet and make something hand stitched for those special people in your life or perhaps to decorate your house.

That’s what I did for this felt heart embroidered ornament.

To transfer the design to the felt for stitching I tried something new to me. I used this great tutorial from Kristyne over at Pretty by Hand. As you can see… it worked great!

After I finished stitching the blanket stitch all the way around the outside and stuffing the ornament, the outside edge looked like it needed something. So I took two strands of the variegated DMC 107 that I used to stitch the heart and flowers and whipstitched around each of the edge bars of the blanket stitch; making it a whipped blanket stitch.

I think it added just the right touch.

Edgings and Small Embroidery Motifs pdf.

I have several more of these small motif sheets in the archives. Such as this one featuring a rose and basket of flowers plus several other small designs.

For the cat lovers, there’s an adorable little kitten along with lots of tiny flower patterns.

Welcome to Stitchery Link Party #44

For those who are newly subscribed or are visiting for the first time, every Monday I host a link party in which I invite others to share their hand embroidery projects.

If you’ve never linked up to a link party before and would like to join in, I’ve written a quick tutorial called How to Link Up to a Link Party to help you not only link up to this party but to any link party you might like to participate in.

The rules for the Stitchery Link Party are simple:

1. The project can be anything as long as it includes hand embroidery stitches in some form. Such projects might be but are not limited to redwork, blackwork, goldwork, bluework, (etc), counted cross-stitch, crazy quilting, crewel, silk ribbon, pulled thread, hardanger and sashiko.

These projects do not have to be vintage or vintage inspired. All styles are welcome as long as it’s hand embroidered.

2. Link directly to your blog post, not to your blog home page.

3. If you happen to sell your embroidery or embroidery patterns, feel free to link up to a blog post you’ve written about a project you’re selling, but No direct links to shops or websites selling things.

4. This will be a curated link party. In other words, if a link does not conform to the three simple rules above, it will be removed.

The next three are more requests than rules. They are by no means a requirement to take part in the party:

5. Please link back to the Stitchery Link Party with a text link somewhere in your post. Or if you’d prefer you can use the cool button that our son designed for me.

Simply copy and paste the code you’ll find under the button in my left side bar. You can add it to your post or to the sidebar of your blog.

6. As well, please share the love and visit one or two (or more) of the other links and take time to leave a comment.

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