Hanging Felted Hearts

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Originally posted February 1, 2012

Stella and I have been busy crafting, but have not done any new Valentine Day crafts and figured since it was that time of year!  I had totally forgotten about these and now need to go into our Valentine decoration box and find these – find a spot and hang them – I just love these!

Valentine’s Day is a couple weeks away and so hearts, candy and roses seem to be everywhere in the stores.  Valentine is one of my least favorite, if not my least favorite, holidays.  It seems odd to me that we need to show the people we love, overly, with gifts, flowers and cards on one particular day.  Shouldn’t we be telling the people around us what they mean to us on a pretty regular basis?  Ok – I will stop being a curmudgeon! With a grade school child in the house – Valentines is a big deal.

We have many activities planned and I completed one – hanging felted hearts.  This was really fun to make – I LOVE needle felting, it is very gratifying.

Hanging Felted Hearts

Items Needed

Wool roving (pink, red, white – your choice)
Felting needle
Beads
Ribbon
Cookie cutter
Felting pad
Needle and thread

1. Place your cookie cutter on the felting pad, then pull some wool roving – enough to really fill the cookie cutter.  I did 3 hearts, 1 red, 1 pink with the smaller cookie cutter and then with the larger cookie cutter I did one side red and one side pink.

2. Stuff the roving in the cookie cutter, evenly.  Taking either a felting needle or a felting tool – which I used in the beginning (the tool holds 1 – 6 needles and make felting a little faster for larger items) start felting the heart.  The cookie cutter will help protect your fingers. Pay close attention to the edges.

3. When the wool has become compacted, gently pry the wool from the felting pad and flip the heart over.  Now you need to felt the other side, keeping the cookie cutter in place as you felt.

4.  When both sides are well felted, take the heart out of the cutter and really shape the edges and felt the fuzzies stick up on both sides.

5. I decided to bead around the edge for the small hearts. String 3 beads on the thread, place on the heart and push the needle through and come up between the 1st and 2nd beads – push the needle through the 2nd and 3rd bead and then place 3 more beads on the thread.  Continue this way until your heart is beaded.

6. For the large heart – if you decide to do two colors.  Follow step 2, when you are ready for step 3, using wool roving of a different color, stuff it in and felt.  The colors will come through on the other side (nice effect).  When both sides are well felted, follow step 4.

7. For the bottom hanging heart I sewed a really nice bead on and let it dangle.

8. Now you need to connect the hearts.  Taking a stick object (I used a small paint brush) push a hole in in the “v” part on the top of the heart and then push a hole in on the bottom of the heart.

9. With your cut piece of ribbon, use the paint brush to push the end of the ribbon inside the hole.  Use your felting needle to close the hole and secure the ribbon.

10. For the top of the hanging, make a loop using the ribbon, tie a knot with the ends and push into the hole.  Felt the hole closed.

Hang somewhere so that everyone can see!

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