DIY Peace & Love Fridge Magnets

Peace & Love Fridge Magnets

In the spirit of the season we thought we’d pass along an easy DIY project to make and give to those on your nice list.

What you will need:  a sheet of plastic canvas size 10 count, a sharpie permanent marker, 3 colors of yarn (we use sugar n cream in Red, White & Hot Green), self adhesive magnetic strips, cork or felt for the backing and some fabric glue. Hang on to the extra materials because we will be posting a couple other projects soon.

Cut 2 squares 15 rows by 15 rows out of your plastic canvas sheet. Use your sharpie to mark in a heart or a peace shape,  see picture above to chart out design.

Once you have it outlined fill in with stiches. Do the background with alternating stripes of green and white.  Cover back with felt or cork and fabric glue. Add a couple magnetic strips with self adhesive cut to size. Give to someone you love!

If you have never needlepointed before check out Susan Battle’s video tutorial for some great tips http://www.monkeysee.com/play/11638-needlepoint

behind the scenes

I wanted to give you a behind the scenes peek at what goes into creating one of our designs. Handpainted needlepoint canvas means just that, we paint it with painstaking precision to ensure you have a really lovely canvas to stitch.

Needlepoint Coaster Kits

The idea for the needlepoint coaster kit began with me taking my four year old son to Michael’s to pick up some plastic needlepoint canvas for him. He had been begging me to start his own needlepoint project and there just isn’t anything out there that seemed to appeal to us at the beginner level.

Up until now all of our Jenny Henry Designs needlepoint products have been labor intensive hand painted needlepoint canvases. The retail price for these has been high as is typical for this type of thing but there is a whole demographic of crafters that are missing out because of the high cost of these projects. This has always bothered me.

But now standing in Michael’s with my son, I see this other side of needlepoint, it’s plastic sister and everything is so affordable! We collect our materials and head home to create. Liam is seen here below testing out the process.

After a few of months of refinement the coaster kit series has been developed and is available to the public. Because the designs are charted and the materials are relatively inexpensive, these kits can be retailed for $25.00.

Even though these kits were designed with the beginner in mind they could also be a fun quick project for the experienced neelepointer as well. Each kit contains everything you will need to stitch up a set of four coasters. There are 10 designs to choose from.

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