This is a quick, easy, and fun Valentine’s craft: Make a lovely heart-shaped handmade felt brooch from the smallest felt scraps. I keep the felt scraps from my upcycled sweater crafts. Even the smallest felt scraps, like this heart-shaped flower brooch, can be crafted into something fun.

This sweet heart-shaped felt flower brooch is cute for wearing around Valentine’s Day. It would also make a fun Mother’s Day gift. The brooch is simple enough for kids to make, too.

I got the idea for this sweater scrap upcycle from making a Frida Kahlo Christmas ornament. For that decoration, I made the fabric flowers in Frida’s hair out of small felt scraps. I’ve also made a felt succulent garden from felt scraps.

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What You Need

• Sweater felt scraps in a variety of colours. Think about what colours you want the flowers to be, and use scraps in those colours. I went through my scrap bag and picked out felt in pinks, reds, and oranges. You only need the smallest of scraps for this upcycle. (If you don’t have sweater felt scraps, use craft felt.)
• Wooden heart shapes, come in various sizes. I made two felt brooches, one big and one small.
• White craft glue
• Safety pins or brooch pins.
• Sewing pins
• Superglue precise gel
• Pinking shears

How To Make A Handmade Felt Brooch

Step 1: Only the smallest felt scraps are needed to make the tiny felt flowers for this heart brooch. Cut the sweater felt into 2cm wide and 6cm long strips.

Step 2: The pinking shears cut the felt strip in half longways. If you don’t have pinking shears, just cut using scissors, but try to cut a wavy line.

Step 3: Carry on cutting out small strips of felt in various colours. For the large brooch, I made about 20 felt flowers. For the small brooch, ten flowers. That meant that I cut a total of 30 sweater strips.

Step 4: To make a felt flower take one of the sweater strips and paste one side with craft glue. Then roll it up tightly. Use a sewing pin to hold the sweater roll in shape as the glue dries.

Step 5: Continue making felt flowers with the other coloured felt scraps.

Step 6: Remove the pins once the glue has dried with the felt flowers. Next, assemble the handmade felt brooch by glueing the flowers to the wooden hearts one by one.

Start by glueing one of the felt flowers to the middle of the heart using super glue. Then work your way outwards until the whole heart is covered in flowers.

Step 7: Finish the felt heart brooch by sticking the brooch pin to the back with super glue.

Now all that is left to do is to wear the brooch. I love wearing mine on my denim jacket; it adds a lovely pop of colour.

I wear the bigger flower heart brooch when I want something even brighter and bolder. Check out these DIY fabric sunflowers for another broach idea.

Valentine’s Crafts

I think that these flower brooches would make a great gift. If you make one give as a Valentine’s gift, some lovely free vintage Valentine’s cards here will go great with it. If they happen to love beetroot you could also make these quirky scrap fabric beetroot brooch also on the site.

If you have larger pieces of felt in your scraps, you might want to make these gorgeous embroidered heart decorations, too.

There are many more Valentine’s crafts on Pillarboxblue that are fabric heart themed. If you have more wooden hearts left over, you might want to use them to make personalized map heart ornaments and brooches.

I have many handmade Valentine’s decorations ideas, from neon heart signs, heart string lights, and even hearts made from painted pinecones and rustic wood slices.

For more upcycled ideas, as well as using old sweaters, there are a lot of Valentine’s crafts that can be made with denim. And for another upcycled jewellery idea, check out this fabulous DIY denim bracelet.

Check out this comprehensive list for many more fantastic adult crafting ideas.

You can find more Valentine’s crafts here.