Sunday 5 April 2009

is it a bird, is it a plane


or is just one of my funny shaped hearts..!!??



honestly after looking at other blogs and going onto the shabbychic cafe forum i am seriously suffering from homemade padded heart envy!!

just fancied making a little heart last night ( as you do on a saturday night!) so using some samples of material that i had got to work

well i just cant seem to get it to actually look like a nice shaped heart and my padding looks all bumpy!
i have made one before and that seemed ok but when i see pictures of what others have made they all seem to look so much better and neater!!!

what is your technique?? can you help me !!??

4 comments:

  1. Its beautiful Charl don't you do yourself a disservice, I love doing them with my pinking shears really easy and quick, and you know me am a lazy olde bird ;)

    When you have cut out your heart shape, I love long hearts if you know what I mean, put the two fabrics together, sew along the edge, stuff and then close the gap and cut the edges with pinking shears to look pretty, I always do mine with a button and ribbon at the top, again nice and easy.

    Have fun

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  2. thanks lovely... i think i need to invest in a pair of pinking shears as i only hve rubbish old kitchen sissors at the min which arnt even that sharp!!!..
    could do with getting a nice bag of buttons aswell!!!

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  3. As Mary says, don't rubbish it... it's great, and lovely choice of fabric. Her tips are brill - pinking shears are well worth it, as are a pair of sharp scissors that you only use for cutting fabric with, cos paper blunts them.
    Diary of a Tinyholder gave me some brilliant tips, one of which was to make a card template, and draw around that on the fabric. That made mine easier to make. Keep going! x

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  4. aww thanks lacey!. yes she sent me that template this afternoon.. im going to print it off tomorrow and have a go..we'l get there in the end.!!!

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