Use this heart string art as Valentine's Day decoration or to display year round.
Keyword art, heart, Valentine's Day
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 1Heart String Art
Author Amy Lanham
Cost 10
Equipment
1 Hammer
1 Pair of scissors
Ingredients
2skein6 strand embroidery flossred and pink or any colors you want
50pieces1 inch wire brads
1piece9 inch x 9 inch 3/4 inch plywoodcan use 1/2 inch or any scrap wood
1paper heart templateapprox 8 inches
1rolltape
Instructions
Tape a paper heart template to the center of the wood.
Hammer a nail at the top and bottom of the heart and on each side.
Hammer in nails every 1/2 inch, all the way around the paper heart shape.
Remove the paper heart, and start to string the embroidery floss. Start with the red embroidery floss to fill in the left side of the heart.
Starting at the top center nail, make a knot around the nail with your embroidery floss.
Then go straight down to the bottom middle nail. Wrap it around and back up to the nail to the left of the center top nail.
Loop around the top nail and then go back to the same bottom nail that the thread came from. But loop around 2 nails at the bottom and then back up to the nail to the left of the nail that was last threaded at the top.
Continue this, back to the bottom, around 2 nails, back up to the top, around the nail next to the threaded one, until the edge of the heart is reached. Then loop the string around the top outside of all the nails and around the center middle nail.
Then zigzag the thread between the middle and finish it off by looping the thread in a criss cross pattern.
Once the desired design is reached, tie off the red embroidery floss on the top center nail, then tie on the pink embroidery floss on the same nail.
Once the second color is tied on to the center nail, go straight down to the bottom center nail and repeat the same pattern on the right side of the heart that was done with the red floss on the left side.
Once the desired design is reached, tie off the pink embroidery floss on the top center nail