Calling all sweethearts! Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and Heidi Kenney, designer of all things cute and tasty, has created a chocolatey treat especially for you. Using just a fat quarter of Polartec® Fleece, Heidi’s Valentine Chocolate Box Pillow design is perfect for your best friend, your mom and even your one and only true love (yourself, included!) Our favorite thing is that this chocolate box won’t melt or go bad—it’s meant to last as long as love itself. Follow along below with Heidi’s simple step-by-step tutorial and make your very own Valentine plushie.
Look no further for a gift that comes from the heart this V-Day! Make this loveable plushie that will melt your Valentine’s heart. Give a real box of chocolates in case their mouth waters at this gift. Spoonflower’s Polartec® Fleece is the perfect fabric for this project! It’s soft, cozy and offers a vibrant color. While you’re gathering your fabric, consider stitching a fabric label to add your signature to this personable gift.
Materials
- 1 fat quarter of Polartec® Fleece in Heidi’s Valentine Chocolate Box Pillow design
- Sewing machine
- Coordinating thread
- Fiberfill
- Scissors and/or rotary cutter
- (optional) ruler—to evenly measure and cut your fabric in half
- (optional) sewing pins
How to Make a Heart Shape Plushie
Step 1: Cut your fabric out
Cut out your two hearts and the long red strip from your fat quarter fabric.
Step 2: Cut the strip in half
Using your rotary cutter or scissors, cut your long red strip in half longways.
Step 3: Sew your strips together
Take your two strips and sew them together at one end, creating one long strip. Notice, the red sides are facing.
Step 4: Arrange your red strip to your fabric heart
Place your ribbon on the heart shaped fabric with the chocolates on it. Align your red strip so the seam lines up with the center of the heart. Grab some safety pins to help keep things in place as we get ready to sew. Make sure the fabrics are facing as you insert pins.
Step 5: Sew the strip and heart together
With right sides facing, sew your strip to your first heart.
Step 6: Attach the other heart
Line up the other heart along the other edge of the long red strip in the same way you did the first heart. Pin in place and sew along the entire heart leaving an opening near the bottom of the heart about 3″ long. This opening will allow us to flip the heart right side out, and stuff it with Fiberfill.
Step 7: Flip heart and fill
Turn your pillow right side out, stuff with Fiberfill and hand stitch the opening closed.
Cool!