How To Decorate Your Valentines Day Gift

Valentine’s Day is all about sharing one’s feelings – one way to do it is by giving gifts. The gift needn’t be costly, but it should be a personal expression of love and affection embossed with motifs that declare the spirit of Valentine’s Day.

If you are thinking of making the gift for your valentine or decorate it to make it your own, you need to use one of these motifs – roses, or hearts. You can embroider this heart on to the gift bag or to the gift itself. A t-shirt can be embroidered with this heart right in the middle.

These can be embroidered on small bags or pouches. You can make them out of old denim for a more sustainable gift.

Learn to make a coin purse here or a boxy pouch

You can combine the two, rose and heart motifs and make a big heart shape embroidered with roses – combine woven rose flower embroidery with small french knots inside a large heart.

A cute and soft shawl can be made as a gift. Follow the dimensions for the scarves and shawls here

Applique a heart on a t-shirt.

To applique a heart motif on the t-shirt cut out the heart motif from fusible interfacing.

Cut the fabric for the applique a little bigger than the heart cut out from fusible web.

Keep the fusible web on the back of the heart piece; Clip the extra edge every 1 inch or so so that it will turn easily to the back. Fold the edges to the back- press with iron so that the edges stick to the fusible web.

fold the edges of the applique over the interfacing — Press the extra edge to the back of the fusible interfacing

You can sew the edges in place with hand sewing needle and thread – with running stitches

Sew your applique with small stitches. You can also use needle point stitches, which will make your stitches invisible. Checkout this post on needleturn applique for this.

small whip stitches to sew the heart applique on the shirt

If none of these work, just hang a fabric heart on the gift bag.

Use rhinestones or bead work to do the decoration.

Make a reusable gift bag to put this heart and ofcourse the gift.

Just fold a 14 inch by 11 inch fabric by the middle (the dimension of the fabric depends on the gift you have); sew the bottom edge and sides together.