DIY Embroidery Heart Patch Pillowcase

Today's sewing tutorial is all about embroidered patches. Making handmade embroidered patches are fun to make at home. Some embroidered patches are elaborate and time-consuming to make by hand. Yet, keeping your embroidered patches simple will make it easier for you to make especially if you are a beginner in doing embroidery. Here is the tutorial for making these heart embroidered patches. 

Materials:

Leftover fabric

Embroidery floss thread

Scissors

Embroidery needles

Embroidery hoop

One pillowcase

Fabric marker or a black pen

Heart stencil (optional)

Regular needle (optional)

Regular thread (optional)

 

Begin by using a fabric marker or a black pen with a heart stencil to draw the heart. If you do not have a stencil, you can draw the heart by hand onto the leftover fabric. After that insert embroidery thread in the embroidery needle and begin embroidering. You can follow the outline of the heart or cover the lines to make the shape of the heart. Next, you can continue embroidering the heart depending on how thick you want the embroidery patch to be.

You will need five or six embroidered hearts depending on the size of the hearts. Once the embroidered hearts are complete, carefully cut the embroidered fabric hearts. Then, fold or trim the edges and add embroidery thread around the fabric heart. Then, sew the embroidered hearts onto the seams of the pillowcase using a regular needle or an embroidery needle. In this example, the embroidered hearts can be sewn with embroidery floss thread and with an embroidery needle.

However, you can also glue the embroidered patches onto the seams of the pillowcase instead of sewing the embroidered heart patches. Below are links for more ideas to make your embroidered patches. Embroidered patches can also be made out of circles or other geometric shapes. Keep in mind that each geometric shape will change the look of the embroidered patches. Therefore, make a theme for your embroidered patches before sewing them onto a pillowcase; In this way,  you will not complicate yourself when making the design for the seams of the pillowcase.

 

4 Ways to Make Your Hand Embroidered Felt Patches:

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/diy-embroidered-felt-patches-4047059

20 Easy to Make DIY Patches in Custom Designs:

 https://www.itsoverflowing.com/diy-patches/

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