Mollie Johanson from Wild Olive has a fantastic new book out, Stitch Love: Sweet Creatures Big & Small.
Because she’s so incredibly awesome, Mollie has organized a Valentine’s blog hop and made a series of free patterns for you all!
I chose two designs to stitch up, Evie is getting the little rabbit with the flowers, and Mira is getting the ferret.
This was my first time using Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy Stabilizer
I used this Purl Bee tutorial for making the felt hearts, but I made my own template so my heart would be wider to accommodate the pattern a little better.
Fill them with the candy of your choice (around here it’s dark chocolate) and you’ve got a sweet little gift for your Valentine!
Download the ferret pattern and the bunny pattern
And make sure you stop by the other blogs to get some more adorable patterns!
Monday: Shiny Happy World & Wild Olive
Tuesday: Little Dear Tracks
Wednesday: Lark Crafts
Thursday: Hugs Are Fun (That’s here!)
Friday: Feeling Stitchy
Saturday: Pretty By Hand & Wild Olive
So tell me, which is your favorite of the Valentine’s patterns you’ve seen so far? I had such a hard time choosing which to stitch, they’re all so cute!
I’m so glad you discovered Sulky Sticky Fabri-solvy! I call it The Magical Embroidery Stuff. 🙂 I do so much embroidery on felt now that I’ve discovered it! One tip – soak it off felt in cold water. You need to soak a little longer, but warm water can make the felt shrink a bit. Not a big deal for something simple like hearts – but a very big deal for some patterns where things need to fit together.
Oooh that’s a good tip about the cold water. It did shrink a little bit I think, I ended up having to trim the back pieces a little. I had assumed that I just did a bad job cutting them out in the first place! 🙂
I had a bit of a nightmare with Fabri-Solvy – the ink ran when I soaked it off the (white) fabric and there was nothing I could do about it. In future I will try and print patterns in a lighter colour. It was a really intricate design and I was gutted 🙁
Oh my gosh! That’s awful! I can understand being nervous to try it again! I did print mine on “draft mode” so that the printing was a little bit lighter, you could try that? Or just make the lines grey. Good luck!