Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays because it taps into that giddiness I felt as a young girl making my valentine box at school and looking at each and every valentine I received over and over. It is a special day to tell those you love that you really care about them. This year during my mom's visit over the Christmas holiday, we made heart pillows using scrap fabric, felted wool, buttons, and antique lace. These pillows were really easy to make and most didn't even require a sewing machine. My mom designs and sells quilt patterns and other fun things on her website and has a pattern for these delightful little pillows called "Tokens of Affection."
Every heart pillow is unique with it's fabric combinations and details on the front.
This was my favorite pillow all stitched by hand using felted wool for the red heart, three small white buttons, and a running stitch along the edge. Simple and elegant.
All of the hearts have different thicknesses using combinations of fiberfill and quilt batting.
There are so many fun combinations that we just couldn't stop! All together we made 32 heart pillows.
I really like the hearts with pockets that can hold a valentine or love note!
In addition to the heart pillows, we made vintage valentines printed onto aged scrapbook paper found at an antique store. Some ribbon was also used to give it that old-fashioned look.
Making the heart pillows and paper valentines was so much fun that we couldn't resist selling them at The Wild Ramp!
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