Hanging Valentine Hearts Garland Embroidery Design, Instant Download

This is the hanging hearts garland and its one of those designs that reads totally differently depending on the fabric you put it on. Hearts in 3 different sizes dangle off a thick cord strung between two red satin bows. Orange wooden peg clips hold alot of em in place, which gives the whole thing that hand-strung bunting look. Six colours total: red, hot pink, pale pink, black outline, white fill areas, and those warm orange pegs.

The heart shapes are a mix of styles. Some are plain outlines, some have crosshatch-style satin fill inside, and the black one on the far left is a thick dark outline with no fill at all, just open and sketchy. That contrast is what makes it work. Not everything matching, not everythings the same weight. Feels like someone actually hung these up rather than printed them. Its the kind of thing where people cant quite tell at first if its stitched or printed, which is exactly what you want on a gift piece.

I get alot of messages from nursery teachers and classroom mums around February asking for something they can stitch on a felt banner or a linen table runner. This ones basically built for that. Last valentines season a teacher ordered the 7.51-inch size on cream linen and pinned it above the reading corner. She said the kids kept pointing at the orange pegs and asking if they were real clothes pegs. Couldnt help laughing at that.

Stitch on white cotton, oatmeal linen, or cream canvas for the cleanest colour read. Pick the 3.51-inch for a card-front hoop or a small tote pocket. And skip patterned fabric here because the fine cord line and the open heart outlines need a plain ground to sit against. Use a tearaway stabiliser on woven cotton, switch to cutaway on anything with stretch. Hoop it snug because the cord runs the full width and any shift mid-stitch shows. Dont rush the bows at each end, those red satin sections are dense and worth slowing the machine for.