February 12 ~ Valentine Inspiration
Love Note Pillow by Ginny, Sweet Myrtle
Ginny created this small lavender scented pillow for a two hour “Alice and Ginny” workshop at her local arts center. You can see the front of the cushion here; Ginny writes, “The whole project is hand sewn and is very easy to achieve.”
When we asked Ginny if we could feature her photo she wrote out a tutorial just for you! Thank you, Ginny!
From Ginny ~ You will need:
- two 15cm squares of cream felted wool (or wool felt)
- one 6 cm square of red felt
- freezer paper
- red or pink fabric paint
- small scrap of double sided fusible web
- 4 scraps of fabric
- red and cream embroidery thread, split to 2 threads
- red seed beads
- stuffing
- dried lavender
To create your own little love cushion cut out two 15cm squares of cream felted wool. For the front of the cushion cut a heart stencil from freezer paper (4cm wide by 5cms tall) and stencil through in red or pink fabric paint. For the ‘LOVE’ wording chose four fabric scraps. Draw a groovy 60′s style font in reverse onto double sided fusible web (each letter should be no bigger than 3cm x 3cms). Fuse these onto the reverse of your fabric scraps and cut out. Apply to the front of the cushion and hand stitch to hold the letters in place.
For the back of the cushion cut out a 6cm square pocket in red felt. Before attaching this, stitch on a heart shape using tiny seed beads. Next blanket stitch the top pocket edge in cream. Pin this to the back cream square and blanket stitch the remaining three edges to secure.
To finish place wrong sides of the front and back cushion together. Pin and blanket stitch around all four sides leaving a 5cm gap in one edge. Lightly stuff through the gap, add a little dried lavender to scent and continue the blanket stitch to close.
Finally write a love note to your beloved and pop it in the secret pocket.
Don’t forget to enter our True Love Valentine Contest for your chance to win some great prizes! You have through midnight tonight to enter!
Comment in any post this week for your chance to win one of these great prizes: Amy Butler Softwares (Sewing Software on a CD) from The Electric Quilt Company; $15 Gift Certificate to Lilac Lane; $15 gift certificate to SewBrookie; $15 gift certificate to Sew,Mama,Sew! Take a look at the February “True Love” prize master list to see other great prizes we’ll be giving away this month.
59 Responses to “February 12 ~ Valentine Inspiration”
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Very cute! I have a giant bag of dried lavender I could put to use. Thanks!
This will be perfect for my sisters!
so sweet, thanks for sharing!
Simple and sweet. I like it!
this is adorable. You really need to click on “see the front of cushion here” to see how sweet it is! I don’t have the eyesight for anything this small but it sure is a treat!
:O)
Adorable! Thank you for sharing!
This is adorable!
So nice! Thanks for sharing
I like the dried lavendar idea!
awww…lavendar is one of my favorites!!
Cute little cushion, thanks for the great ideas for Valentine’s Day, Sharon.
I really like this. It is so cute.
Awesome! I am sensing a subtle “secret love note pocket” theme through a few of these Heart Day Inspirations…
i love things with pockets!
What a cute idea.
aww, i love ways to share little notes
Oh, I wish I had time….maybe for next year.
Very cute! Can’t wait to try this!
I love this idea, its just what I needed. I’m off to make 5 pillows today
Lovely!
Love the blanket stitching along the edge! Lovely look, simple instructions. Thanks fo rthe tut!
This would be a great (and easily adapted) tutorial to use with a sewing/crafting group since it’s all hand sewn and some materials could be shared and swapped to make interesting designs.
Cute!
Cute.
What a great idea… so cute!
Sweet is the word for this project! <3
So pretty. My daughter would love to get little notes in a pillow like this.
There are so many great ideas on this blog!!!
Very sweet pillow! Might have to whip one up today.
that is so sweet and could be modified for other holidays/events!
Thanks for all the great ideas so far!
Simply adorable! Thanks for all the great ideas!
This is great for so many different occasions…Love it!
This is GREAT!
What a cute little pocket!
looks like the perfect starter project for hand sewing! Thanks for sharing.
That’s so sweet. Any ideas on where to buy the lavendar? My local natural foods market used to carry it before it got bought out by Whole Foods. Now I’m not sure where to go!
Love it! My oldest would use it everyday
Love it. I’ve used LOVE in a great deal of my comments this month.
What a neat project. Thanks.
So cute, thank you for sharing it
Love it! Something so simple can say so much.
I love the front. The hand-stitching around the letters is very cute.
So cute. Thanks for sharing.
What a sweet project!
What a sweet little gift!
I like little projects like this you can feel as though you accomplished something it a short amount of time very cute
What a great idea and a great tutorial. Thank you so much.
not enough time to make all of these wonderful V day crafts! What is a girl to do?
This is one of my favorites! Adorable and doable.
So cute! I especially love the front.
lovely idea!
Awesome idea!
So sweet!
very cute!!
How adorable! Thanks for the tutorial Ginny!
Thank you for sharing. Very cute!
Thank you for sharing this – such a great idea
Sweet idea…thank you for the tutorial