Here.is an amusing way of using up some of those scraps of woollen material you may have collected in your oddments bag. Make a dainty little heart-shaped book-marker for yourself and, while you are about it, you might make three or four others in different colours and with different designs for your book-loving friends.
First trace the outline of shape about 2 inches wide inches in length. Cut out this shape in brown paper and use it for a pattern for cutting out the shapes in material. Cut two for each heart On one of the woollen pieces work three roses, or any other flower you like, in embroidery wool.
Surround each rose with leaves, working the groups in three single-stitches in green.
Now lay the two halves together (wrong side facing) and work open buttonhole stitch in wool round them, leaving an opening at the top. Do not cut the wool but stuff the heart with cotton wool, so that it is nicely padded. Then close the opening and go on with the buttonhole stitch. Attach a tassel to the centre top of each heart shape. For those, cut short strands of wool, pull them double through the buttonhole stitching at the top of the heart and tie them with a strand of wool. Add a long loop of wool at the top.
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