Embroidered Conversation Heart Knit Coasters

Get ready for Valentine's Day by whipping up your very own set of Conversation Heart Coasters!  For more details see my blog JustBCrafty.com

Materials:
US size 8 knitting needles
worsted weight acrylic yarn, white and V-Day inspired colors
Knitted Heart Pattern
yarn needle

To make these coasters I used Julie's beautiful Knitted Heart Pattern from "Julie and The Knits" with a slight modification.  I wanted them to be a little longer than the original pattern calls for so in between each decrease row in forming the apex of the heart, I added 3 rows of knit.

So Step 1 is to knit your hearts.  Find the pattern here.

Embroider romantic messages on your hearts.  To do this just take an arm's length of white yarn threaded and thread it into a yarn needle and start stitching.  Look the pictures above for a guide.  This did take me a couple attempts to get the letters to look how I wanted, but my time spent was so worth it!

To get the letters in a straight line, pick a row in the knitting that you want all the letters to sit on and and do the same for the uppermost boundary of the letters.  My letters were all about 3 rows tall. 

Repeat the same steps for "XOXO".

Repeat again for "Be Mine".

Grab a drink and enjoy all your hard work!

Or...package them up and give to all the Valentines in your life. :)

For more details see JustBCrafty.com