It has been 4 days since my father had his heart surgery and I decided to make him a little get well gift. Here is a tutorial for a felt toy heart that looks like it has been through a lot but is still happy and smiling. It is a short and easy project that took me 2 hours to make. Here is how it turned up at the end:

List of materials used

black, red and white thread
sewing needle and scissors
black, white and red felt
paper and pencil
2 black buttons
1 bandage and cotton wool
thicker white thread for hair

Preparations

The first thing you will have to do is take your paper and pencil and draw your moulds which will help you when cutting felt into needed shapes. Draw one heart, one circle (for eyes), mouth shape, arms and one semi-large shape that will act like a patch you will sew on a heart. I usually write the numbers on my paper moulds so I know how many parts out of felt I need to cut out.

The next part is cutting felt. I use felt that is recycled out of plastic bottles and urge you to do the same. It is soft and easy to work with. I first thought that I would make those tiny black parts for eyes out of it too but then decided to go with the buttons instead, it looked cuter. After seeing the parts I was not happy with the mouth so I made a larger one and cut a small red piece of felt to be the tongue. I wanted the heart to look as happy as possible.

The sewing part

Take one piece of your heart and first sew on the red patch on it with red thread

sew the buttons to white circles with black thread and then use the white thread to stitch it to the heart. Now you have eyes

use your red and black thread to sew on the mouth

take two pieces of arms and sew them together leaving a small hole for your cotton stuffing, fill it and finish your sewing. Repeat that with the other arm.

Finishing

Cut about 20 pieces of thicker white thread and bind it together in the middle. You will have a little lump at one end and fuzzy hair at the top. That lump will be sewn to the top of the head but do not worry, you will not feel it because the stuffing will even it out and make it smooth and soft.

Now all you have to do is sew the two pieces of the heart together and attached the arms. I start at the bottom of the heart and go counterclockwise so when I am at the end I have a hole at the bottom that I use for stuffing the toy with cotton.

While you are sewing it together keep in mind that you have to put the arms between two hearts and sew them to the large heart pieces of felt for them to be properly attached. When you get to the top, do the same with the hair, put the lump between two pieces and just sew.

STICK A BANDAGE TO IT AND YOU ARE DONE!

Do you like my little cute felt heart that just got out of the surgery? Will my dad like it? I hope he will 😁. Feel free to leave me your opinions and reactions in the comments below.