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Valentines Day Stitch Gift-Free Tutorial- It's Tool and Technique Tuesday!

2/9/2016

Practice your decorative stitches and make these adorable, affordable and easy felt coasters for valentines day.

Yes I am still stuck on the love theme this month!

Felt is very absorbent and makes great coasters.

They are perfect for gift giving!

.... Or you just may want to keep them for yourself

You will need:
Red Felt (2 layers for each coaster needed)
A Frixion Pen
A rotary cutter with a pinking or wavy blade
A sewing machine with decorative stitches
Threads in Pink, White Lavender and Peach, I used Connecting Threads, Essential Threads, "Salt Water Taffy"

How to make them:
1) Using a heart shape, trace it onto 2 layers of red felt. (You can download for free my shape template from my shop in the free patterns here)
Trace using a Frixion pen, so that when you iron the coaster, the marks go away, it's a wonderful pen!

2) With both layers together, stitch around the perimeter of the heart a generous 1/4".
3) Trim with a wavy rotary cutter blade, close to the edge

4) Choose your threads, I used Connecting Threads -Essential Threads in pinks, lavender, white and a peach pink

5) Choose your stitches and stitch!

It is fun to "audition" these stitches on a small project, that way you know what they look like on something bigger.