When I wanted to make felted Christmas ornaments this year, hearts were what I thought of. And as soon as I started folding paper to cut out a heart pattern, I remembered the line from one of my favorite Christmas videos -- "Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day." From there it was easy to see what I was going to make.
For the fabrics, I chose a heathery red wool sweater and a poison green wool blazer I'd fulled in the wringer washer. I wanted to layer another heart in order to fulfill the quote's prophecy but couldn't come up with a third color from my stash that worked and refused to change the first two. (Sometimes my muse is very stubborn.) So the photo above shows my first attempt. Unfortunately no matter how I changed the lighting I couldn't capture the true nature of the green.
Compared to choosing the fabrics, the process of making the ornament was easy. I pressed a medium-weight iron-on interfacing to the wrong-side of the two wools before cutting out two large red and one small green heart shapes. Then, because the white stabilizer showed along the edges, I tore off a thin piece along the borders of each before attaching them. The blanket stitching affixing the green heart to one of the red hearts as well as the other embroidery and beading were finished before I blanket-stitched the two red hearts together. For a hanger, I whip-stitched a loop of ribbon between the two layers of red wool. Eh, voilà, the first heart was done. More to follow.
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