How to Make Hanging Heart Wedding Favours

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Happy Saturday all! Here is a DIY tutorial for the weekend. Tiny Tatty Hanging Hearts! They are super cute and very easy to make. Spray some branches with white paint, decorate with fairy lights and hang all your little hearts from the branches. Leave a sign next to the tree asking guests to take a little piece of love home from the day. I have called them tatty as they don’t need to be perfect. They will look pretty however rough around the edges they are. Your guests will appreciate the thought and enjoy having something handmade to take away from your day. They also double up as Christmas tree decorations. Great for this time of year!

You will need…

Fabric of your choice. I love ditsy print (if you haven’t already noticed!)
A pencil
Scissors
Needle and Thread
Pins or a few sewing needles
Lace, ribbon or twine
Sewing Machine (optional, but probably faster!)
Wadding (or cotton wool)

Step 1: Using a pencil draw out a heart shape on the back of your patterned fabric. If you don’t have a very steady hand or you want all of your hearts to be uniform shape and size then create a cardboard template to draw around first and then use this every time. I like the idea of having quirky hearts all different shapes and sizes so I am just going to go ahead and sketch all of mine straight on to the fabric. If you are doing it this way then you can just fold the fabric over, pin it, and cut out two hearts at once. Remember to allow for at least a 0.5cm gap between the edges of the fabric and your stitching.

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Step 2: Cut off a strip of lace or twine that will be long enough for hanging the heart when folded over. If you want to be very precise you can measure them out so that they are all the same size. Again I like to bodge it keep it quirky with different lengths.

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Step 3: Place your folded lace or twine on to the wrong side of the fabric on one of the hearts. The loop should be at the bottom of the heart and the open ends at the top. Pin any lace or twine out of the way to avoid stitching through it.

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Step 4: Pin the other heart on top. The right (patterned) side of the fabric should be facing inwards for both pieces, and your lace or twine should be sandwiched inside.

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Step 5: Begin stitching around the edges either with a sewing machine or by hand.

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Step 6: Leave a 2-3cm gap in the fabric so that you can fill it with wadding or cotton wool.

Hanging Hearts Tutoral. ©Handmade & Hitched

Step 7: Turn the little heart inside out so that the pretty side of the fabric is now showing. Gently poke a pencil into the corners of any difficult to reach bits. Stuff with little pieces of wadding (you could even use cotton wool) and stitch up the gap by hand.