How to make heart hangers

These adorable heart hangers are quite easy to make and a set will be a fabulous gift. They can just be decorative, or you could fill them with some lavender or pot pourri, wrapped in a bit of wadding, to scent them. These are a great project to use or recylce fabric scraps from around the house too - we've used linen tea towels for example - and it will be fun decorating them with buttons and beads.

You will need:

• Tea towels – linen & cotton
• Narrow ribbons – try satin & gingham
• Buttons & beads
• Red stranded cotton
• Toy stuffing
• Heart template (download it below). Use this template to create the heart shapes for your sachet.

How to make the hearts

1. Transfer the heart shape from our free template on to a fold in your tea towel. Cut out the heart shape. Hold the fabric firmly, and use sharp, strong scissors because tea towel fabric is thick! Once you’re done, cut out a second heart the same way. If you want to decorate your hearts, then do it now before you sew them up – add pretty buttons or simple embroidered designs.
2. Next, put your two fabric heart shapes right sides together, so that any decoration you’ve 2 added is facing inwards. Create a loop from ribbon and pin the ends to the top of one of the hearts. Sew the two hearts together using the seam allowance from the template as a guide, and leave a gap for the stuffing along one straight side. This stitching should hold the ends of the ribbon firmly to produce your hanger. Remove all the pins.
3. Use small, sharp scissors to snip little V shapes, almost to the sewn line edges of the heart. This will give your sachet a much smoother shape. Now push the fabric through the gap you left to turn your heart right- side out. Stuff the heart using plain toy stuffing until it’s reasonably firm, and add lavender or a few drops of essential oil for a scented finish. Once you’re done, carefully sew up the gap by hand.