Embroidery Hoop Covered Button Heart and My One Year Blogiversary

Happy Valentine’s Day!

My Embroidery Hoop Heart is super quick to make, and super quick to explain how I created it!

I made a bunch of covered buttons, enough to arrange in a heart shape. I cut out a paper heart based on that as a guide, and traced that onto the back of the fabric (oh yeah, I fused some interfacing on the back to give the teal fabric some oomph). I inserted the teal fabric into the hoop, then I stitched on the buttons following the heart I drew on the back. Finally I trimmed off the excess teal fabric. All done.

I didn’t take my now usual step-by-step pictures when I made it. Why? Because I made this over three years ago. It was one of the first craft I made after my girls were born, who were about 2.5 years old at the time. I was starting to toy with the idea of posting crafts on my personal blog, which I had started writing in 2008.

Back then, life was so different. We were even living in a different house. The girls were toddling around and I spent most of the day herding them. I’m amazed I even made this at all!

Yesterday was The Silly Pearl’s ONE YEAR BLOGIVERSARY! I started this blog because I wanted a separate place to share my craft tutorials. I actually gave a little peek of my embroidery hoop heart in my very first post:

Many thanks to you, my readers, as well as my friends in the craft blogging community for your support. And thanks to my husband, my best friend and of course my dear mom for your encouragement and for always believing in me.

 

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