Liberty Gift Tags Tutorial

The sea­son of giv­ing is just around the corner and thanks to Aus­trali­a’s (and my own) favour­ite Liberty Courtiers, Ava & Neve, I have a tutori­al to share today for these cute little Liberty Gift tags.     They’re quick to make and just per­fect for any small pieces of Liberty Tana Lawn you have on hand.

Here’s what you will need to make one (trust me though, you will want to make more!):-

• Heart Shape Tem­plate & Let­ter­ing PDF
• 5″ square of Liberty Tana Lawn
• 5″ square of coordin­at­ing sol­id fabric
• light­weight fus­ible interfacing
• embroid­ery thread
• ¹⁄₈″ wide rib­bon (10″-11″ length is perfect)
• Tem­plate plastic

1. Trace the heart shape on to tem­plate plastic.  Use the plastic tem­plate to mark the heart shape on to the wrong side of the Liberty Tana Lawn, coordin­at­ing sol­id fab­ric and the light­weight fus­ible inter­fa­cing.   Cut all 3 heart shapes out.
2. With a pen­cil lightly trace the desired mes­sage on to the right side of the sol­id fab­ric and then use a hot dry iron to fuse the inter­fa­cing to the wrong side of the sol­id fabric.
3. Using 2 strands of embroid­ery thread  stitch the mes­sage on to the sol­id fab­ric.  I used an out­line stitch but you can use whatever stitch suits.
4. Place the sol­id fab­ric right side up on your cut­ting mat so you can see the mes­sage.   Pin both ends of the rib­bon to the top of the heart shape as shown.
5. Wrap the loose end of the rib­bon around a few times and secure in place with a pin.   This is just going to hold it out of the way while you sew the gift tag together.
6. Place the Liberty Tana Lawn heart right side down on top of the sol­id fab­ric and pin in place.
7. Sew ¹⁄₄″ around the the heart shape leav­ing a gap on one of the long sides (HINT: the side with your pin head so it’s easy to take out). 
8. Snip around the curved edges at the top of the heart then turn right side out.  Press mak­ing sure the open edge seams are inside the heart.
9. Top stitch around the heart to close.

Quick, easy and… they double as a pretty cute Christ­mas Tree ornament! 

Pretty cute little gift tags though and one I’m sure your friends and fam­ily would love!

If you have any ques­tions at all about this tutori­al please don’t hes­it­ate to flick me an email.   Happy to help if you need any­thing cleared up.