Hearts and Lace Patterns

General info
What you will need
Soap info
Instruction video
Instructions
See also

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

step 1 — 1. Slice the top of the soap.

step 2 — 2. Mark center and draw the circle.

step 3 — 3. Cut and remove soap around the circle.

step 4 — 4. Divide the center of soap into 6 sections.

step 5 — 5. Cut small notches between the sections.

step 6 — 6. Cut small notch on the middle of each section.

step 7 — 7. Cut two lines forming heart at each section and remove the soap between hearts.

step 8 — 8. Round the edges of the hearts.

step 9 — 9. Cut out the soap inside the each of the 6 hearts.

step 10 — 10. Divide the soap into 4 parts, one per side.

step 11 — 11. Carve a trench.

step 12 — 12. Cut the heart shape on the trench and remove the soap around it.

step 13 — 13. Repeat two previous steps for each side.

step 14 — 14. Remove the soap between previously carved hearts.

step 15 — 15. Carve scalloped pattern and remove soap around it.

step 16 — 16. Repeat two previous steps for each section between hearts carved in steps 11-13 (side hearts).

step 17 — 17. Smooth the soap by the scalloped pattern.

step 18 — 18. Carve finer scalloped lines under previously carved scalloped lines and remove soap around them.

step 19 — 19. Carve two marquise shapes on each side heart.

step 20 — 20. Smooth the soap around the ornaments.

step 21 — 21. Carve the trench under scalloped lines.

step 22 — 22. Cut the heart and remove soap around it.

step 23 — 23. Repeat two previous steps for each section under scalloped lines.

step 24 — 24. Carve three trenches between each pair of "diagonal" hearts.

step 25 — 25. Carve the scallop line on these trenches and remove soap around them.

step 26 — 26. Repeat two previous steps for remaining side hearts.

step 27 — 27. Smooth the blanks at the side.

step 28 — 28. Carve finer scalloped lines under previously carved scalloped lines and remove soap around them.

step 29 — 29. Repeat two previous steps for each section between "diagonal" hearts.

step 30 — 30. Carve two marquise shapes on each "diagonal" heart.

step 31 — 31. Smooth the blanks.

step 32 — 32. Carve the trench.

step 33 — 33. Cut the heart shape on the trench and remove the soap around it.

step 34 — 34. Repeat two previous steps for each heart by the heart of previous layer.

step 35 — 35. Smooth the area between two hearts of second layer at the shorter side.

step 36 — 36. Carve an semicircle and remove soap around it.

step 37 — 37. Carve a finer scalloped line under previously carved semicircle and remove soap around it.

step 38 — 38. Repeat two previous steps for remaining spaces between two hearts of second layer on shorter sides.

step 39 — 39. Carve marquise shapes on hearts of the second layer.

step 40 — 40. Smooth the blanks.

step 41 — 41. Carve the hole at the center of the soap.

step 42 — 42. Put a pearl bead at the hole.

step 43 — 43. Your soap carving is done!