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How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace

January 6, 2020 By: Katie5 Comments

Make a beautiful stitched heart pendant necklace with a step by step tutorial. A DIY heart necklace is a great addition to your handmade jewelry collection.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

A heart is so much more than a cute symbol, a heart defines love and unity.

While February is the season of hearts, you can show off hearts all year long! That is why I love this stitched heart necklace so much.

Supplies Used to Make a Love Heart Pendant Necklace

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  • Mini Embroidery Hoop Pendants
  • 18 Aida Cloth
  • Needle
  • DMC Floss (I used 3350)
  • Charms
  • Embroidery Scissors
  • Jump Rings
  • 2 Pairs Jewelry Needle Nose Pliers
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Small Screw Driver Set
How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

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Making the Cross Stitch Heart

To begin cut a square out of the Aida Cloth. You want the piece larger than the mini hoop pendant.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

Cut a piece of DMC Floss. The floss is made up of 6 strands, and for this project, you will want to separate the piece so it contains 2 strands. Thread the floss through the needle and tie a stopper knot at the end of the strand.

This is the pattern I used for the heart, but you could use any small cross stitch pattern as long as the finished design fits inside the mini hoop pendant.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

For this project, I did not count over to make sure the design is perfectly centered because I will be trimming away the excess anyways. So I guestimated the center near the bottom and began stitching.

Work from the bottom of the pattern and up.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

Hint: to give the design a nice smooth look, have all the base stitches go from right to left corners and the top stitches to go from left to right corners.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

Placing the Design in the Mini Hoop

The mini embroidery hoop comes in three pieces. The hoop, the insert, and the back cover.

Center the stitched design over the insert and trim away the excess but give plenty of room to wrap the Aida cloth to the back of the insert.

Put a small dab of hot glue behind the center of the design to secure it in place. Then wrap the edges securing with the hot glue as well.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

Place the hoop over the top of the insert and use the screw and bolts to tighten into place.

Before twisting the screw all the way through, place a jump ring over the screw, as shown below.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

The Screw and bolts are super tiny. Having a small screwdriver is very helpful.

Making the Love Charm

Adding a charm to the necklace is completely optional, but I really like how it adds to the finished look of the necklace.

To Make the charm, I added the “love” charm to the tassel charm.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

To add the “love” charm we need to open one of the jump rings on the tassel charm.

With the opening to the jump ring at the top of the ring, take two pairs of jewelry needle nose pliers, one on each side of the ring.

Slowly twist your right wrist to open the ring.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

Slide the ring from the “love” charm into the open ring. To close the jump ring, use the same twisting motion used to open the ring.

Isn’t the finished charm cute?!

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

Finishing the Love Heart Pendant Necklace

Using the same technique as above to open and close jump rings, you will want to add one more jump ring to the mini embroidery hoop pendant.

Now all of the pieces are finished, all that is left is to string the stitched heart pendant and charm onto the necklace chain.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

I cut the chain length to 22-inches and that length works really well for me.

How to Make a DIY Love Heart Pendant Necklace, a tutorial featured by top US craft blog, The Crafty Blog Stalker.

What do you think? Would you make one with the same heart design or would you do something different? Share and leave a comment below!

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Comments

  1. cARRIE @ Crafty Moms Share says

    January 18, 2016 at 5:49 pm

    Oh, those are so cute!!

    Reply
  2. Aki @ Minted Strawberry says

    January 21, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    So cute! Thanks for linking up at Friday Finds!

    Reply
  3. Emily says

    January 15, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    Aw, I love these necklaces! Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday!

    Reply
  4. Rebecca @ My Girlish Whims says

    January 16, 2017 at 1:06 pm

    So cute! Perfect for valentines day 🙂 Thanks for linking up to my party!!

    Reply
  5. jacqui Korroch says

    January 16, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    What a Treasure Idea for a Special Friend, Teacher or Family member.

    Reply

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