Embroidered Heart 1

Hello my Steemian #needleworkmonday friends!

Good to be back on Monday with a little needlework project to report :-)

Since I finished my last project (a crochet dress in Irish crochet technique) I have quite a bit of yarn left over.

The yarn that I used for that crochet project was really an embroidery yarn, which means it's time to remember my other favourite hobby - embroidery.

I decided to make two embroidered hearts and hang them on one of the doorknobs in the house as I feel that that particular corner could do with an artistic touch :)

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So late last night I completed heart #1 (oh what a bliss to be able to complete a project in a few days, not years!!!!)

I chose a simple, very pale pink felt fabric. That's the colour I wanted to use and found a small size square piece in my local crafts shop.

I quickly drew heart shapes and the floral design on the fabric and started working.

To create the roses, I used a bullion stitch, they are called 'bullion knot roses', if you want to look them up online.

Here's a tutorial for bullion stitch:

I've never worked with bullion stitch before so I learned it from a few tutorial videos online. (I just love how I can learn almost anything online!)

The stitches I used for the branches and leaves are the simplest ones I could remember from those days when I used to embroider.

It's funny, I haven't done any embroidery work for years and years and yet it felt so natural to create something from scratch - I'd say it's a bit like riding a bicycle, you never really forget :-)

So heart #1 completed, now I'll start working on heart #2 - two hearts are better than one! :DDD

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