Step 5. Repeat this sequence until you have stitched all around the heart.
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Step 6. This is what it should look like, wip!
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Step 7. When you get to the point of the heart, let the thread exit, snip off leaving about 10cm, and then tie a knot, using the starting tail of yarn. Voila! You are done… 🙂
Tomorrow I will post the crochet part of the Tutorial.
Here are a few ideas of what you could use this little heart for:
1. A pincushion… scissors in the pocket, pins where the rose pattern is, also you could put your tape measure, unpicker etc into the pocket and add a small pop stud, or botton to close the pocket. If you are really clever, you could put a zip in, before you sew up all the pieces…
2. Sew a magnet on the back of the heart, stick it to your fridge, leave notes to your kids, family, husband inside…
3. Create a lavender sachet, use in your drawers, cupboards etc… or give to a friend 🙂
4. Wrap a gift, place heart on top, and tuck your card inside. You can easily change the size of the pattern using a photocopier…
5. Attach to a key, hang on a door knob, put on a clothes hanger…
6. Make lots of these hearts, and string together using ribbon…make an advent calendar, a Christmas garland for your tree or just for decor, make a bunting with someone’s name for a birthday…
7. Make the heart in Christmassy fabrics, attach a ribbon to it, and hang as a Christmas Tree decoration. You can even tuck some cinnamon sticks into the pocket for scent…
8. Use as a place marker for a special event…tuck each person’s name into the pocket of their heart, which can be a gift to take home. Nice for bridal showers, baby showers, Christenings…
9. Make it from cute fabric, embellish with appropriate items and create a tooth mouse heart. The tooth goes into the pocket, and the gift (whatever it is)…replaces the tooth.
10. Enlarge the pattern using a photocopier, make a cushion…
If anyone has any other ideas…please leave a comment…much appreciated 🙂
Blocking your squares and rectangles.
A quick note on blocking…
When you kave knitted something and you have used Stocking Stitch (all knit stitches one side, purl on the other side), your item will have a tendency to curl up at the edges. This is because the knit stitch is a slightly different size to the purl stitch…
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So…what to do? Well, you
block!
I like to wet my entire item in cold water with some fabric softener added in. I wet it thoroughly, press gently between two cotton towels (it still has to be damp), and then pin it on all edges to a fat cotton towel. I have used my ironing board with a towel placed over it.
When you pin, you may need to stretch the edges a bit so that you get the size that you need, ie 5×5 cm, 10×5 cm.
Allow to dry naturally out of the sun. You’ll pull out the pins and find that the blocks are flat and the right size! Its a simple process, and doesn’t take as long as what it looks like… 🙂
Chat to you tomorrow!
Lots of Love,
Heidi 🙂