Hello ‘shabbilicious’ friends,
I apologize that I’ve been ‘MIA’ the past few days…
Life just got a tad busy!!
I had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours in my craftroom over the weekend… there was a huge ‘To Do’ list to contend with, but when I had a break, I spent some time just ‘pottering’.
Lately I’ve really enjoyed these unstructured crafting moments.
I delved into my scraps bag to use up some of the left over fabric pieces from my Tilda ‘Happiness is Homemade’ collection.
1. I cut a base piece of fabric 24 cm x 26 cm and randomly attached pieces of fabric to it with fusible webbing. All the fabric pieces were cut freehand… and nothing is perfect.
2. When all of the base fabric was covered, I chose a fancy stitch on my sewing machine and edged all the little fabric pieces. It looks kind of like patchwork… if patchwork was imperfect.
3. When the fabric top was all stitched and the loose threads removed, I traced 4 heart shapes onto the back of the fabric. Next I cut out the heart shapes.
4. I added some embellishments like free motions stitching, hand stitching and stamped words.
I cut more hearts out of wool felt and a pretty backing fabric. The felt heart was sandwiched between the top and back layers. I secured the 3 layers together with a couple of long sewing pins and then set about free motion stitching the outer perimeter of the hearts.
All of the hearts are quite different… but still have that handmade, unstructured look. I think they are so cute and perfectly imperfect!
I used one as a gift tag and another is hanging from my shelf unit in my craft room. Imagine them strung as a shabilicious garland!!
Not a bad project, seeing it was made from a few off-cuts and left over bits and pieces.
I think I’ll make it my mission to make at least one thing each week using something from my craft cupboard.
That way I can clear some room to buy new crafting supplies!
Happy crafting
♥
Kerryanne
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Your hearts are darling, Kerryanne.
Debbie
xo
Oh these are so pretty Keryanne. Such lovely colours and I love the randomness (is that a word???) of the design
Toni xx.
This is a fntastic idea. I’m all over it and thank you for posting.
Marrianna in Flagstff, AZ, USA
Hello Kerryanne, the hearts are lovely! Clever girl. How can I shop for the stamps to get the wording made please? I love the lace also on the angle of hearts.Hugs Betty @Port Macq
These are so lovely Kerryanne, I would love to make some to add to Christmas presents. Especially for my “stitchy” friends I too would like to know how to get the lettering onto lineny looking fabric. Is it something simple like stamping letters or print from printer and computer. Shirley
These are so pretty. I am in the process of making some needle books and this idea would be fabulous too for the covers. Thank you for the inspiration.
These are so gorgeous!!
So nice ! Thank you for the DIY (to add to my impressive to-do list !)
xoxo from PARIS under the rain to-day
Joëlle
Love the hearts!
Oh girl, these are adorable! I think I feel a heart-y day in my future. xx
absolutely love what you do!! I am looking for presents for my in=laws, Great idea to us the scalps from other projects!!!
Keep on posting we love see what you will do next!!. sincerely, Phyllis
Hi from Downunder, just love this site. Only came across you by chance a month or so ago, have been fully engrossed with your sharing etc. keep on doing such sa great job. Thanks
Thanks Larain. I’m in Australia too 🙂
OMG !!!! these are so pretty ! I love heart !
Love this project, I am just getting back into sewing and love the hearts!
Love the hearts they seem so you, thanks for all of the lovely ideas!
Thanks Kathy… I’m pretty predictable when it comes to cottage/shabby pretties!! 🙂
Luv the hearts. So simple so pretty and luv the pumice stone idea. Essential oils seem to be a pop trend right now. Great for gifting.
These look perfect for the “I found a quilted Heart”. Will be doing many of these to “sow” wherever I go.
That’s perfect Elizabeth. I hope you have as much fun making these as I do. They are a little bit addictive I’m afraid – lol.
These are perfect for all my little tiny pieces I can’t do anything practical with but can’t throw away either! I am now going to make these and use up my extra stash. And probably do different shapes like butterflies also. The possibilities are endless with this method. I just love, love, love it! Thank you so much. Xxxx
Oh, my gosh, what a delightful and uplifting project to have found! These are beautiful at any time (LOVE your color choices) but especially this year when we could use the lightness and brightness. Don’t get me wrong, I do love the traditional colors of Christmas, but THIS is “hitting the spot” for me now – I can imagine how beautiful a tree will be with this :D. Love, love, love that you shared both your pictures and a tutorial so we can do this, too! Thank you. 😀