Sweet Valentine yarn hearts

My dear friend, Chloe at Celebrate and Decorate makes these fun yarn hearts and I thought I’d try my hand at making them too. I am all for easy and fast project while using materials that you have on hand. It’s a no brainer project to do while watching television. Since there are no glue guns or sharp utensils, this is a fun project with little ones. You can see Chloe’s post here.

Here is the list of materials:

• Yarn
• Cardboard
• Heart shape (I use a cookie cutter)
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Needle with a large eye

Since I only have pink and 2 different textured white yarn on hand, I limit my color choices. However, it’s obvious that you can use any color you’d like, depending on your Valentine’ theme.

Making the Template

Using some scrap cardboard, I trace the heart-shape with a pencil. Cut as many hearts as you need. If you are making a garland, it takes approximately 10-12 hearts (depending on how far apart they are spaced) for a 6 foot garland. If you are filling a decorative bowl, then the sky’s the limit.

Once you cut the cardboard hearts, then start wrapping the yarn around the heart in random ways.

Finishing the Heart

With a large darning needle (one with a big enough eye to thread the yarn), you can secure and knot the end piece on the back of the heart.

Several Ways to Use them

One of the tricks of seasonally decorating, is the ease in which you can adjust or alter your decor with a new season. Here is the winter wreath on the front door. After removing the red plaid ribbon and the faux berries, I now have a basic evergreen wreath, that is a bit of a blank canvas.

Adding a pink Polka dot ribbon and some yarn hearts, I have easily transformed it to a Valentine wreath I can keep on the door for the next month.

Making a yarn heart garland is also easy to do. Using ribbon or more yarn, string the hearts together. You can push the hearts as close together as you’d like.

As you can see here, I did add some yarn pom-poms in between the hearts for added texture. And a button garland made with real capiz shell adds some dimension. Ballard Design used to carry this button garland but it is no longer available.

When I was a little girl, I recall making pom-poms every year for my ice skates. However, pom-pom making is now a bit easier with this nifty tool. This kit is not intuitive so I suggest you watch the tutorial video on how to use them. You can find the pom-pom maker kit here.

This tool makes fluffy pom poms in 4 different sizes. For this project I used the smallest one (or the yellow tool). With the end of the yarn, I just tied the pom pom to the garland.

There are so many ways to use these sweet, yarn hearts. Just a fun, quick DIY project to get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day! Thank you, Chloe for the inspiration!

Have a wonderful Wednesday. Hard to believe we are in the middle of another week!