This year’s eTextile Valentine is posted with my favorite DIY, How-To, Git’r’Done website. Instructables! Step by step instructions on how to se conductive thread, LEDs, 3V coin cell battery and your imagination to light up Hello Kitty! Now go. Make the world a more beautiful place!     Instructable

  Are you ready for this year’s Valentine’s Day project? I bet you’ve been waiting all year for this PUNCHY interactive Instructable! Beware tho – eTextile Love Hurts! Unlike last years STABBY Valentine this time – you will have to sew with poky pricky needles. Will you make a badge for your coat or a pillow for your love? Maybe […]

After sewing a piece of hardware into your textiles take your needle and thread and back stitch along the electrical trace to bury your thread tail. THEN clip the excess thread. This helps prevent short circuits because you don’t have loose threads near your hardware connections. Bonus – you don’t need unsightly messy fabric glue. ewwwwwwwww!

Today I began sewing Hello Kitty’s electronic circuits! Positive and Negative traces. Sewing the LED’s into the circuit. SPOILER ALERT: 2013’s How To DIY eTextile Valentine’s Day Project can be found on this page.

Find the inspiration. Overnight I saw @inventor_artist twittering about their laser cutting Hello Kitty! Valentine Day cards. In the blog post images I saw the solution to my circuit challenge. EUREKA! Design the circuit And gather the Supplies! SPOILER ALERT: 2013’s How To DIY eTextile Valentine’s Day Project is here.

Valentine’s Day is looming and I am pensively sketching this years eTextile project. How will I follow the success of 2012’s STABBY Valentine? Circuits are Colours! Valentine’s Day is Interaction! SPOILER ALERT: 2013’s How To DIY eTextile Valentine’s Day Project is here.