Heart Pincushions

Long time, no see, eh? I've been fiddling around in the studio occasionally just haven't had anything to show for it. I saw similar little pincushions on a posting over at the Craft blog so I thought I'd try my hand at a few. Of course it called for scraps and what had I done last year? Got rid of all my little scraps. So I had to cut strips from my bigger pieces so I could piece the hearts together. You make these by making two 4 1/2 inch squares of material - then iron on some Wonder Under to one square - draw a heart on the paper side and then cut it out. Take your crazy quilted piece of fabric - i think mine was about 4" square - and put it under the cut out part. Peel off the paper and iron the square (with the cutout) to the crazy quilted piece. Then sew around the heart and sew together into a pillow - leave an opening to turn. Stuff. Easy. I saved the cut out hearts to make another little pincushion - but you can't really get a pin in it because the hearts are too stiff (ah whoops). Looks cute though :) I think I'm going to throw these into random envelopes for a heart swap we're doing over at Doll Street. They were just fun to make.