Hug of Hearts 9 Wide Border Heart
This Wide Border Heart features a wider border which can feature many different techniques. Add beads, different stitches, chevrons, or even tiny rolled tallies. Choose your own edge techniques and add your own choice of grounds or pattern for the center.
In the Hug of Hearts series there are 24 designs which can be adapted further with your own choices.
The patterns are 4, 6 and 8 cm across at the widest point. The 4cm suits a 28 to 34 wpc thread. Add more passives for finer threads, add some sparkle, colour thread for fun. These can be fitted into bangles as decorations.
The photos show a half stitch border (ctc, hs, hs, ctc), and a cloth stitch border with random beads treatment. In both pieces, I have made the join to one side of the bottom point on both.
The beads were a bit on the large size for this piece, so I made two or three passes with the worker between each bead. I used twists on the worker between each passive on the beaded heart, doubling them for the wider top curves to keep the edge strong enough to carry beads.
In the half stitch heart, the outer and inner passive was worked cloth stitch (ctc) and the middle two worked half stitch to give a solid line before the pins. Nice and simple.
The centers of this heart can also be used to add ground or fancy stitches.
More info on my Lesley’s Lace blog
There are some empty hearts in the set of 24, don’t be upset for them, they are just waiting for you to fill them with your choice of stitches.
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