How to Make Valentine's Embroidery Hoop Art
Want to make something pretty to hang up and share the love on Valentine's day? Try out our embroidery hoop art project - it's a great one for beginners, using simple sewing and shapes to good effect! And once the big day is over, you could hang it up in a child's bedroom or leave it up as a reminder of the love shared in your house.
How to Make Valentine's Embroidery Hoop Art
You will need:
- Embroidery hoop of your chosen size
- Fat quarter of your chosen fabric - we've used Spot on Raspberry
- White felt
- A strip of white cotton
- Contrasting embroidery thread
- Stamps or fabric pen
- Scissors
- Pen & paper
- Needle
How to make your Valentine's heart embroidery art:
- Unscrew your embroidery hoop and place your fabric over the inner ring. Push the outer ring over the top and screw the top to hold in place, making sure the fabric is taught.
- Using a pen and paper, draw a template for your felt heart. Cut out and pin to your felt, then cut around the template on the felt to create your heart.
- Thread up your needle with the embroidery thread and using a reasonably long running stitch, stitch the heart to your fabric in the centre of the hoop.
- Decide what you want to write in the middle of your heart and stamp or write your message onto the strip of cotton fabric, then cut to size. Make sure to leave a cm or two at either side to sew it on.
- Using the thread, sew one long stitch at either end of the cotton strip to attach.
- To hang - attach some ribbon or string to the top of the hoop and hang from a picture hook, or if your picture hook is small enough, hang the hoop straight on the hook using the gap under the screw.
