DIY: Valentine’s Day Heart Pin

February 14, 2012

It’s Valentine’s Day! Embrace cupid’s big day with a simple heart pin or hair clip to add a little festivity to your wardrobe today. Keep reading to see how to make it.

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Supplies:

Pink and red craft felt scraps

Scissors

Heart cookie cutter shape

Chalk

Thread and needle

Batting

Pin (if you’re making a pin) or

Hair clip and hot glue gun (if you’re making a clip)

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Trace your cookie cutter heart shape with chalk onto felt, folded in half (so you’ll cut two hearts)

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Pin the heart in the middle and then cut it out

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WIth amcontrasting color needle and thread make large, wide stitches along the perimeter of the heart, stitching the two sides together. Leave about an inch open at the bottom.

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Fill with batting

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Then finish the stitches until closed completely.

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If you’re making a clip, add a bit of hot glue to the clip and then press onto the back of your heart.

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If you’re making a pin, just attached it as you would a corsage. Done!

Born and raised a New Yorker, but now happy to call the fairytale city of San Francisco home with her husband and son, Liz blogs daily about beautiful things and creations over at Say Yes when she's not digging for treasures at local thrift stores, working on a new craft, or picnicing in Golden Gate Park. On the weekends, she loves to spend time with her outdoors enthusiast family, traveling and backpacking through the West's mountains and deserts.