Simple Felt Heart Garland

I am repenting! I have been daydreaming too much and getting so sucked into reading other people's craft blogs, that I haven't done any crafting myself! Well, last night, that all changed. My hubby was on-call at work again, which meant I could get out my sewing machine and all my stuff and having it laying around guilt-free! :)

I've been seeing a lot of Valentine's decor lately on the blogs, and I was wishing I could make something. But since our flat is so small, and HK isn't exactly the craft capitol of the world, it's hard to do much decorating. But when I saw THIS simple felt heart valentine garland, I knew it would be perfect.

First I cut out about a million little felt hearts, (thankfully I had felt left over from my Mr. Potato Head project), and then Maya and Zoe helped me arrange them into order. And we decided to jazz some of them up by adding stripes. Fun, right? (Please excuse the unmade bed and surrounding mess. It was a really laid back day, lol)



I first took the ones that were going to have stripes and just sewed all the stripes on, and then trimmed around the edges. When I finished that, I just sewed them all together through the middles. (The ones that have contrasting hearts layered on them don't have any additional stitching holding them on besides the stitches through the middle.)





Cute, right?

My very first Valentine's Day decoration!

(And how cute is this? Maya went to a birthday party on Saturday, and she got a little felt sewing kit project. Here she is trying to sew. I helped her a bit, but I think this project might be a little advanced for her. Any ideas for a simple sewing craft for kids?)