Burlap and Ribbons Heart Decorations

Love is in the air this week! There is a family wedding soon so its time for a beautiful, rustic, heart shaped craft with ribbons and lace!

This pretty little decoration uses up scraps of fabric and trims you already have.

You will need:

scraps of fabric (I used a piece of drop cloth-it looks like linen)
paper and pencil
burlap
ribbon
lace
pretty little buttons
stuffing
sewing machine
scissors and pins
wire and pliers to hang it up (use string or ribbon if you don’t have wire)

Use a piece of paper to decide what size of heart you would like. Cut the paper into a square. Fold it in half and draw a half heart. Open the page and pin it to your fabric.

Lay out the ribbons and trims on your heart shaped fabric. My beige fabric looks like linen but its a scrap of a drop cloth from tote bags I have made in the past.

Using a sewing machine, sew each piece of trim, lace or ribbon into place.

The trims look really nice crisscrossing each other. Try different random pieces. Burlap adds rustic texture to the project.

Add buttons and bows to the project. Remember not to place them too close to the edge because you need to sew around the edges.

Add 2 tiny loops of ribbon to the top edge and sew a few stiches to keep them in place.

Pin the two heart shaped pieces of fabric together with right sides facing inwards. Sew around the edge leaving a 1 1/2 inch gap opening so you can later turn it inside out.

At the top of the heart snip a tiny cut and a few snips around the rounded parts of the top of the heart. Do not cut through the stitched areas.

Open the gap and pull the fabric through the hole to turn it inside out.

Add stuffing.

Fold over the edges at the opening, pin in place and hand sew the opening closed.

I love wire crafts so I had lots of left overs! For this project I used 14 gauge wire from the hardware store. Use big pliers to cut the wire approx. 8 inches long. Fold the wire in half. (if you don’t want to use wire just use ribbon or twine to hang it)