Little Altered Hearts: Hedgie and Squirrel

Two little (3.5 inch!) Flat hearts that I whipped up.

I glued some plain muslin down to a heart on stiff felt.  A little inktense washing and stamping, followed by hand embroidery, bead embroidery. The bead edge is a picot done with size 8's - a little wonky but charming more or less. I'm trying to figure out a way to handle these thick fabric sandwiches without the edge being so time intensive :(

The images are both from vintageprintables.co.uk, then printed out onto inkjet fabric. "Nut" is hand stamped.

Both pieces are then backed in thicker white denim type fabric.

A vintage German milk glass flower and a new czech flower bead. For this one, I just did a six bead looped fringe around the edge over and over. It covers anything that's fraying. It takes for-e-ver though. Ugh. Don't forget to tie off your work every inch or so - so if you ever do get an unravel it doesn't take the entire edge apart.

These are a great way to use those "too small to use too big to throw away" pieces of fabric, mostly trimmings from larger projects.

Dark and Shabby - Flutter Anatomical Fabric Heart

Most of this blog will feature heart-shaped projects. One of my favorite things to make are little hand-sewn mini pincushions.

This one uses an anatomical heart image from The Graphics Fairy. 

I love treating a small stuffie the same way that I might work an art journal page.

Haven't done a lot mixing fiber and metal - seems like it could be problematic over time, but I wouldn't mind seeing this rust actually.