Tutorial Tuesday - How to Make a Reverse Applique Heart Christmas Tree Ornament

It's Tutorial Tuesday and today we are making a heart homemade Christmas tree ornament - or handmade Valentine's Day decoration - using fabric and reverse applique. Don't worry, it's easier than it sounds!

For this project you will need:

• Two pieces of main fabric measuring 6” x 6”.
• A piece of fabric measure 6” x 6” for the inset heart
• One piece of fusible interfacing, 6” x 6”
• 12” long ribbon for hanging 
• Polyester fiberfill stuffing
• Small pointed scissors like these embroidery scissors
• Marking pencil
• Pinking shears
• Pins or Clover Wonder Clips
• Iron
• Sewing machine
• Matching thread
• Rotary cutter
• Cutting ruler
• Cutting mat
• Heart templates downloaded free from here

Looking for more Valentine's Day ideas? Check out these projects!

Looking for something else? 

Check out some of my other Valentine's Day sewing and crafting projects!

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The step-by-step how to video instructions for the fabric heart ornament sewing project can be found here:

A Day of Discovery

Today was a day of discovery. We started out the morning as planned by hanging out at our own little private beach at our motel in Key Largo.

We sat there watching pelicans and gulls. Even saw this little guy right in the water near the blue walkway that headed to the dock.

Then we went to breakfast at Mrs. Mac's Kitchen a few miles down the road. We were too late for breakfast (it ended at 11 am) so we had lunch instead. (I should tell you - their fresh catch of the day was dolphin. Don't worry, we did NOT order it.)

Pretty cool looking place inside. License plates on the walls and lamps made out of license plates, too. See Idaho up there?

What's that stuck in the lattice on the ceiling? Well, it's money of course!

They had the best homemade key lime pie we've ever tasted.

We then headed to CVS in Islamorada to get hubby's prescription. They had to order it so we'll be back tomorrow to pick it up. I certainly hope this guy isn't in the parking lot again!

To kill time before check in at our new lodging location, we went to Library Beach Park. Although with this warning we decided not to stay too long.

So we headed a little bit early to our new place. What a view, right? This is out our front window.

It's a unique place we're staying in. Sometimes you just have to break away from those standard hotels and branch out. And that's what we did. I'll give you a tour tomorrow.

What a great day of new things!