Hearts and Lace Patterns

General info

heart_lace 1 heart_lace 2 heart_lace 3 heart_lace 4 heart_lace 5
  • Perfect room decoration!
  • Great gift for your friends and family
  • Can be used as soap for bathing or washing (remove the central bead)
  • Difficulty: Intermediate

What you will need

supplies
  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Needle (or other pointed tool)
  • Big pearl bead

Soap info

LUX rose soap

Used in tutorial

lux rose soap
  • Available
  • LUX brand
  • Rose scented
  • Size: 8 cm (3-1/8") x 5 cm (2") x 2.4 cm (1")
  • Weight: 76 g (2.68 oz)

Instruction video

Instructions

1. Slice the top of the soap.
step 1
2. Mark center and draw the circle.
step 2
3. Cut and remove soap around the circle.
step 3
4. Divide the center of soap into 6 sections.
step 4
5. Cut small notches between the sections.
step 5
6. Cut small notch on the middle of each section.
step 6
7. Cut two lines forming heart at each section and remove the soap between hearts.
step 7
8. Round the edges of the hearts.
step 8
9. Cut out the soap inside the each of the 6 hearts.
step 9
10. Divide the soap into 4 parts, one per side.
step 10
11. Carve a trench.
step 11
12. Cut the heart shape on the trench and remove the soap around it.
step 12
13. Repeat two previous steps for each side.
step 13
14. Remove the soap between previously carved hearts.
step 14
15. Carve scalloped pattern and remove soap around it.
step 15
16. Repeat two previous steps for each section between hearts carved in steps 11-13 (side hearts).
step 16
17. Smooth the soap by the scalloped pattern.
step 17
18. Carve finer scalloped lines under previously carved scalloped lines and remove soap around them.
step 18
19. Carve two marquise shapes on each side heart.
step 19
20. Smooth the soap around the ornaments.
step 20
21. Carve the trench under scalloped lines.
step 21
22. Cut the heart and remove soap around it.
step 22
23. Repeat two previous steps for each section under scalloped lines.
step 23
24. Carve three trenches between each pair of "diagonal" hearts.
step 24
25. Carve the scallop line on these trenches and remove soap around them.
step 25
26. Repeat two previous steps for remaining side hearts.
step 26
27. Smooth the blanks at the side.
step 27
28. Carve finer scalloped lines under previously carved scalloped lines and remove soap around them.
step 28
29. Repeat two previous steps for each section between "diagonal" hearts.
step 29
30. Carve two marquise shapes on each "diagonal" heart.
step 30
31. Smooth the blanks.
step 31
32. Carve the trench.
step 32
33. Cut the heart shape on the trench and remove the soap around it.
step 33
34. Repeat two previous steps for each heart by the heart of previous layer.
step 34
35. Smooth the area between two hearts of second layer at the shorter side.
step 35
36. Carve an semicircle and remove soap around it.
step 36
37. Carve a finer scalloped line under previously carved semicircle and remove soap around it.
step 37
38. Repeat two previous steps for remaining spaces between two hearts of second layer on shorter sides.
step 38
39. Carve marquise shapes on hearts of the second layer.
step 39
40. Smooth the blanks.
step 40
41. Carve the hole at the center of the soap.
step 41
42. Put a pearl bead at the hole.
step 42
43. Your soap carving is done!
step 43