How to Make a Pocket Hug
Have fun making this cute little pocket hug! This felt pocket heart is a cute way to show friends and family how much you care, and our free printables transform this kindness craft into a giftable item in no time at all.
Yield: 1 pocket hug
Cost: $1
Materials
- FREE Printable Pocket Hug Poems (find more below!)
- FREE Printable Heart Template
- Red felt (or other colour)
- Safety eyes (6 mm)
- Embroidery floss (black and red)
- Polyester fiber fill
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut hearts from felt
- Print one of our free heart templates in the size and shape of your choosing. Find the link in the material's list above!
- Use the heart outline to cut 2 hearts from felt.
Step 3: Add a cute face
- We're using safety eyes to give our heart a kawaii face.
- To make room for the eyes, insert your needle where you'd like the eyes to be. Wiggle the needle back and forth until you have 2 holes big enough to fit the posts of the safety eyes.
- Insert the safety eyes into the felt and secure them in place with the backings.
- Now use black embroidery floss to embroider a mouth onto the heart. Start from the back and work in small stitches to create the mouth shape you'd like.
- Then tie the beginning and end threads together in a double knot to secure the floss. Cut off the excess.
Step 4: Sew the heart together
- Now bring the two felt pieces together, lining up the edges.
- Thread your needle with a floss that matches the felt. Bring the needle up through both pieces and tie a double knot. Tuck the short tail into the heart.
- Sew the heart together with a blanket stitch. To do this, bring the needle up through the felt and then, before you pull it through all the way, wrap the floss (coming from the previous stitch) around the needle.
- Pull the floss tight, creating your first blanket stitch.
- Repeat around the heart until you get just past the point.
- Add stuffing into the heart. Because it's a small heart, and because the posts of the safety eyes are in the way, add a tiny bit of stuffing at a time.
- Use a pencil, skewer, or knitting needle to push the stuffing into the heart, filling the opposite side.You don't have to fill the heart completely yet, just fill the bottom and other side while you still have access.
- Continue sewing up the side of the heart until you reach the top. Then add your final bit of stuffing.
- Sew the rest of the heart until you reach the beginning. Put the thread through the first knot and loop it around to create a knot.
- Finish off the thread by going down through a stitch at the back and up through the middle of the heart.
- Pull the thread through and cut off the floss near the felt. Wiggle the felt around so the floss doesn't show.
Step 5: Use our pocket hug printables
- Print one of our pocket hug cards and choose the poem or saying you like best. We have 4 different printables to choose from, with multiple options on each page.
- Cut out the card and use a one-hole punch to add 2 holes near the center heart, 1 on either side of the paper.
- Add embroidery floss on your needle and push the needle through the back of the heart.
- Pull one end of the embroidery floss through and remove the needle so that the floss comes out on either side.
- Put each end of the embroidery floss through the holes in the card and tie it into a knotted bow on the back of the card.
- Your pocket hug is complete!
Notes
Looking for more felt patterns? Here's a few of our favourites:
Felt Donuts
Strawberry Felt Pattern
Felt Cookies Pattern