Hand Embroidered Valentine Bookmarks * Creating

Hello Everyone!!! I’m Abby over at A Feathered Nest blog which is kind of a collection of hobbies I like or attempt. I’m a mom with 4 kids - boy, girl, boy, girl, and a {hot} husband. I wish I had a puppy so bad. My baby girl is an animal so she will suffice for now. We live in Michigan {the most beautiful place on earth} but we’re getting ready to move back home to Sunny Arizona! {gasp!} I’m SO excited that Heather would ask me to put together a project for all of you. We’re going to do a Valentine project but not that kind of Valentine project. Let’s veer from the standard Valentine gifts and do something unique for our good friends & loved ones. Who out there doesn’t love a good book?! Even kids’ books. They’re amazing. Don’t you love it when you find a good book and you’re sad when you finish? Wouldn’t it be fun to give a good book to someone you love this Valentine’s Day?! With an adorable hand-made bookmark?! Even better. {add some chocolate to the gift and I’d say that would be the best Valentine gift EVER.} I’ll take a good book {and chocolate} over flowers any day.

Hand Embroidered Valentine Bookmarks

Aren’t they precious? How fun to use the bookmark as the actual gift tag wrap it around a gift card or if you buy a book wrap it around the wrapping paper.  

Supplies:

• Felt, cut in varying circles or shapes (I have a scallop pair of scissors)
• DMC floss, needle, scissors
• Fabric marker- mine has a disappearing ink side
• Fabric glue
• Elastic (you can dye your elastic any color you want using RIT dye - just boil hot water, add a few drops of dye, boil for a few minutes, rinse with cold water.  Bleach your pot before using it for cooking.)

This is a perfect project for those of you who are beginners to embroidery.  If you need a practice guide, here is a handy-dandy Stitch Guide I put together a long time ago.  This post also has some stitching help, another great Valentine project. I’m missing a few stitches on my site but if you google searched the following stitch names you’ll find more than enough help on how to do them.

1. Cut your shapes - I used 3-ply together, but stitched on 2-ply.  
2. Trace/draw your design.  The circles should be small, so you don’t need a whole lot on them - keep it simple.  I free-handed everything so I don’t have patterns, but you can look at these and figure it out.  They’re not very complex.
3.  Embroider your design.  Here are the stitches I used: Lazy Daisy
   - French Knot
   - Split Stitch
   - Running Stitch
   - Blanket stitch
4. Secure your elastic in a loop/circle, using glue or thread - make sure it’s straight. Nothing but the best from you.
5. Glue your front to the back.

DONE!  How easy is that?! Now go make a whole bunch of these and you have plenty of time until Valentine’s Day!  Wahoo!!  These will also make great end-of-year teacher gifts too get a head start and be the admiration of the PTO moms.  You’re amazing.

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