Happy Early Valentine's Day

Hi everyone:

Just a quick post today to let you know about some new Valentine's Day-related patterns that I've just published to my website. There are two stitchery patterns available: one of which combines embroidery and stitchery - and is FREE! Yes, Happy Early Valentine's Day to all my blog readers. The pattern combining both fusible web appliqué and embroidery is called Candy Hearts.

Candy Hearts - appliqué and embroidery
pattern from Chatterbox Quilts

The other design, which is hand embroidery only, is called Sweet Sayings. I was inspired by the old-fashioned candy hearts that had various "sweet" sayings on them.

Sweet Sayings - embroidery pattern from Chatterbox Quilts

Both designs are very quick to stitch up with simple hand embroidery stitches, complete step-by-step instructions and full-size templates in both regular and reversed formats. You can find these patterns on my Chatterbox Quilts website. They both stitch up quickly, so there's still time to whip up a gift for one of your special friends - and maybe even make one for yourself.

While I attached hanging ribbons to both of these projects so I could use them as ornaments/decorations, they would be equally sweet as pincushions or shelf sitters. 

I hope you enjoy these patterns and would love to see your version of them.