Heartworks hand embroidered bear and cushion from Tractor Home
WELL I certainly hope you’re not sick of extravagant giveaways…. because we have another pearler for you today! Today’s beautiful prize has been generously offered from the lovely folks at Tractor Home, who I have previously blogged here and here. Mandy Munro and family travel to Africa regularly to source her incredible range of handmade homewares and accessories… and these stunning embroidered pieces from Heartworks Stitching Club in Cape Town are one of her most popular finds! Each piece is embroidered and appliqued completely by hand in a free form ‘design-as-you-go’ kinda way, ensuring no two designs are ever exactly the same. This inspiring initiative now employs and empowers many local women in Cape Town – you can learn a little more about Heartworks here.
I love the sweet embroidered heart cushion… but also how GORGEOUS is the bear! A very smart and utterly unique gift for any new bub! (Sadly no photo could ever do these guys justice… truly they are even more beautiful and detailed in person!).
You can check out these stunning pieces in person at either Safari Living or After in Melbourne, or if in Sydney try I ran the wrong way in Surry Hills. HOWEVER if you’re lucky, you might be making friends with these guys as early as next week! You could win the very handsome pair pictured above (embroidered bear and large heart cushion) simply by leaving a comment on this post today! A winner will be selected at random and contacted by email tomorrow. Yippee!
Huge thanks to Mandy at Tractor Home for this super gorgeous giveaway… do share the love by popping over to the Tractor Home website to check out her full range of beautiful handcrafted pieces!
*UPDATE – thanks so much for all your comments! The winner has now been drawn – comment #197 was randomly selected. Congratulations to Stephanie Darling, enjoy your Heartworks embroidered bear and heart cushion!! Thank you again to Tractor Home for such a lovely giveaway!!
love love love them!
Oh yes please, you are both very welcome in the Stamer’s home and will be MUCH loved.
What a precious giveaway xox
aww so colorful and happy. Please count me in!
How delicious. So talented
Gorgeous and so cheerful! Would love to see these in my home.
Beautiful and colourful, these pieces look to be made with love.
My baby girl (8 months old) would find the colours eye popping, and the texture of the stitches, lovely to touch. Lovely!!
Totally brighten up my gloomy Thursday morn :)
Super pretty!
Gorgeous stuff, such beautiful embroidery, love to enjoy them more!
Truly stunning work! There is something about the colour combinations and the embroidery skill that brings such a human touch to these pieces which could never have been replicated in a manufactured setting. Thank you so much for the introduction to this wonderful company which supports so many wonderful artists.
I love them! The heart is perfect!
I’m such a fan of embroidery (I’m even starting lessons!), so this would be the perfect gift.
Best!
So sweet! So beautiful! That bear is incredible!
So GORGEOUS. The embroidery is beautiful.
Oh, exquisite! I have just the perfect two little people in mind for these embroidered treasures. Thank you Design Files.
Utterly gorgeous! I know a 14 month old (and his mum) who would swoon over them. I want them!
Wow! Such a gorgeous prize.
Gorgeous! I’ll be crossing my fingers for these little beauties!
Beautiful embroidery! That cushion would look lovely in my daughter’s room. Fingers crossed!
I heart the beautiful heartworks cushions. They would have a loving home here.
Beautiful work,very talented artists.
mmm…so cute. my 2 wee nieces would LOVE them!! xkat
I LOVE the bear!!! Im not usually into bears, but he is V cute and stylin :) Beautiful handiwork.
these both look beautiful are very much desired.
Count me in, fabulous colours!
Possibly the most exciting TDF giveaway ever (and that’s saying something!) Love Tractor Designs.
great to see some colour on this rainy Hobart morning…
Such a handsome pair. Those vibrant hues! Please add my name to the hat, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Good luck to all, (though I’m hoping it’s me… this giveaway is fantastically brilliant)
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Adding my name too. What great work. Truly delightful, I say.
Oh yes please – my brothers pregnant so that would be a perfect gift!!
I loved this little bear and heard… I have always loved embroidery and this are beautiful unique pieces!!
I absolutely love reading your blog every day, and this is such a gorgeous giveaway, thank you! I have my fingers crossed :) xo
too gorgeous x
Wow how gorgeous – I know the perfect place for these little beauties!
PLEASE!!! can i win this time!
i cant believe the detail in them! love the happy colours, they make me smile.
My mornings start with a cup of tea and reading your blog – inspired every time! Today I went on a trip to Africa, thanks :)
stunning & unique!
Yummy :)
Both beautiful! Especially love the sweet colours on the cushion :)
Oh Wow they are beautiful and would be perfect for my new baby that will arrive in July. Fingers crossed. x
Love the colours and would love these in my home!
yes please
So gorgeous – I’d love to give the Teddy to my friend’s new baby…
they are so beautiful! A perfect treasure to be past down the generations!! :)
Wonderful, unique and helps out the people who create them in Cape Town, lovely give away.
Really Gorgeous!!! Love x
never too old for a teddy…or love :)
Absolutely gorgeous!
My first ever nephew or niece would love them to death. Due to be born soon.
The people from Cape Town are so talented, the bear is absolutely amazing, he would fit into our home so well as would the cushion. Will have to pay a visit to tractor home.
My baby is due soon and these are just gorgeous for baby………..xx
Perfect for my soon to be born baby’s colourful nursery.
My friend is having a baby any day now and the beautiful bear would be perfect.
Love love love !!! Perfect splash of colour for a very grey/black/white home !!
oooo … sister in law about to deliver third baby and has everything under the sun already. … but not these!! Perfect!
Gorgeous, so good to see work on the Design Files all the way from the Heartworks Stitching Club
Too cute – and so much detail !
absolutely divine, gorgeous!
Oh they’re spectacular! What gorgeous treasures. Please count me in for the giveaway.
I love those heart cushions so much – so so so lovely! Yay for an awesome giveaway!
social entrepreneur and gorgeous.
so lovely…
Ah-maze-ing stuff. Absolutely lovely!
Not only are they completely and utterly gorgeous, Mandy Munro and her team are showing the world how a single group of people can make a difference. Bravo!
So colourful and beautiful, and empowering women… I don’t think it can possibly get much better than that!!
These make me happy!
Oh. Em. Gee. I loooooooooooooooove it!! I want it!!!!
i love them! Pick meeeee!!
fabulous give aways as usual,gorgeous.I will give them a good home
love this!
I have to go and buy one of those heart cushions. What a great way to help local artists.
Beautiful! The detailing is stunning. Love them.
Amazing! How pretty and inventive!
Oh, that bear! I love it! Such beautiful embroidery work!
Love love love…please thank you please thank you
i don’t know who would love them more….. me or the kids??
Put’s an instant smile on my face! Such beautiful detailing and colours used.
Ooh how gorgeous!! Would absolutely love these, fingers crossed x x
I love these, they would look so good on my couch!
These are absoutley gorgeous, amazing design with their heart in the right place! Thanks for sharing the beauty…
i’m feeling lucky today… and if I don’t win, I’m heading to After to purchase!
LOve Heart!
So sweet!
I’m surrounded by friends who’ve just had babies or just about to – these would be just perfect as a gift
These are just stunning, my 20 month daughter would adore the teddy bear, but I think I would snavel the heart cushion for my bed!
Ahh yes, my son would go nuts over Mr.Ted!
My new nephew would love the bear. The heart I would keep for me!
just gorgeous, would love the giveaway
So cute! and the perfect amount of colour to make you smile :)
I especially love the cushion, but I’m mad for the colours of both! Beautiful!
so detailed… so beautiful!
Mad for some stitching right now! So great.
Oh I am in love.. Absolutely beautiful. Think I’d better pop into Safari Living!
How divine and made even more special by their creators and their stories.
Impossible not to love!
I love embroidery how beautiful!
My gosh. SO adorable. I would love them and look after them forever xxx
i know a particular to-be-mother who would love to be given one for these for her new bub :) x
inspired and inspiring! Thanks, would love these.
How cool! I would definitely be saving these for the little girl who lives next door and her soon-to-be sibling. I’d love to keep the heart cushion for me, but with two dogs, white just doesn’t stay white for long :/
LOVE LOVE LOVE the colours and SO SO much work that goes into these…
Love love love these! So happy and beautiful :)
handmade has its beauty always and forever!
Stunning! have swooned over Tractor Homes products for ages.
wow, I LOVE these, so clever, thanks
ah these are amazing and the colours are so vibrant!
So much work! I know from doing my own stuff how much time and effort would go into these beautiful softies.
I have coveted these beautiful embroidered pieces for so long now…..they are on the wish list gift-to-self. Such exquisite craftsmanship and the gorgeous colours! I would love to meet the people who make them. Lucky Megan :)
Not sure which I would keep and which one to give to my daughter…hmmm could i keep them both?
Love their work
The detail is stunning! Love these xx
I have such design envy – so beautiful!!
My little girl turned 4 this week and she loves bright colours so much. As part of her present she is getting a new ‘big girl’ bed and these would look so lovely on the comforter :)
beautiful
totally adorable i could hug a bear!
So inspiring to see beautiful objects made with integrity and goodwill. I hope more businesses follow Heartworks Stitching Club’s lead.
Love them, and from such a wonderful creative idea to benefit all.
I adore the style and admire the care taken to produce such beautiful pieces. These must have taken so long to create! I am so very inspired by the story behind Heartworks. xx
Love the heart and teddy, so beautiful and original. It’s so nice to see hand made products rather than commercial mass productions.
These are delightful and would find a loving home at our place!
what an amazing display of these ladies skills, absolutely beautiful!
The expression on the face of the bear……ohh, definitely needs a little boy to love him.
Oh baby!
such talent. both are so sweet.
They are beautiful and what makes them even more beautiful is how they came to be created. I would love to offer a loving home to these little beauties. xx
WoW, the patterns & intricate stitching on these cushions are amazing!! Such happy & vibrant colourst too, very special x
Beautiful embroidery! They would look lovely in my daughter’s room.
Fingers crossed!
Designing my nursery right now so the bear and heart pillow would be a great inspiration to start with.
Divine! My baby would love these… (when I say my baby… I really mean me) xx
My daughters would loooooove these cushions. So cute!! Thanks again Lucy xx
That image just brightened my day :-)
Oh bless, very cute!
What a way to spread worldwide love…
so much detail – amazing.
Spectacular crafting, the ladies in my Crafty Club would be simultaneously jealous and inspired, gorgeous.
I love african crafts, traditional & contemporary. These pieces are no exception. They made me think about my own work, not to be so conservative, and go wild!
amazing handcrafted pieces – i love them!
Absolutely beautiful
Such great colours for my little one’s room! Yes please!!
I love the bear!
Wow what amazing work!
Beautiful! Objects with soul. Love.
Wow, beautiul work and a great business that empowers those who have so little.
Thanks Tractor Home and TDF!
Too lovely not to share – on my Pinterest boards today, and hopefully with my two girls as well.
So, so beautiful! My cousin honeymooned in South Africa… I am hoping that giving her these beauties will encourage her to produce some children to play with them!
the bear perfect for my daughters room and the heart perfect for my room. beautiful.
I know someone who would love to have them, my five year old daughter, Lucy.
i would love to see our little girls head resting on that heart pillow and her arm draped over the bear x
Both will look stunning in my baby’s nursery!!!
Truly unique,vibrant and beautiful creations – as unique and amazing as the artists who create them in Cape Town,what a lovely giveaway.
I love Tractor!
Love the connection with the communities in Africa and the amazing people who produce these items that find their way over the seas to our homes.
I love Tractor!
so unique…
Who doesn’t like a bit of hand stitching.
I have just bought a new apartment and think there might be room for two more!
Please send them to me!
my ma always loved to embroider but until now have always seen it as a really “nanny” pastime. i am inspired to take up a needle and thread and try my hand at decorating one of my boy’s teddybears.
What beautiful work coming from the local women in Cape Town.
Oh so lovely giveaway ! :)
I love bright colours so these are definitely for me!
yes please, I would love to be entered into the draw to win these beauties ;)
Detailing is wonderful and what lovely colours!
I love that they are all unique. It’s what makes them special. Gorgeous colours.
Im such a sucker for anything embroidered and these pieces are so lovely and lively!! Hope Im lucky with this one, my 8 month old son would love them!
gorgeous.
Lucy! You just find the most awesome things. These are so sweet. I have to pop down to Safari and check them out.
How scrumptious. The colours are so vibrant I love, love, love it!
oh boy! what beautiful work. I need a bit of that in my life for sure x
They are so beautiful! And great to know Tractor Home is stocked at I Ran the Wrong Way, I thought I’d have to wait until I’m in Melbourne next to see their things.
Wow – stunning – wish I was that clever to be able to create something so beautiful – would be such a sweet present for my new nephew!
Just devine. The colours make you smile!
Beautiful work! Would love to have them :)
I fell in love with the bear and heart the minute I saw them. The colours brighten up my life!! Heading to Safari Living to see more asap!
how divine. my little miss scarlet would just love love love these treasures. :o)
Uuummm, neo coloured beautiful! I want to go to sleep with these gems every night (Yes, I am an adult). Fingers crossed!
so colourful and fun! I know if I don’t win I’m sure I’ll buying one (as a gift or for myself) in the not to far future!!
Oh Lucy, it makes me so happy to see the african talent being shared around the world! xxxx
yes please tractor home . i love the embroideries. xx
i inhliziyo that bear! (inhliziyo = heart in zulu!)
Gorgeous!
so beautiful and unique. what special gifts they would make.
These are beautiful. I love the embroidery and the texture it creates.
These are so beautiful! Just precious.
Stunning detailing! They are beautiful!
how stunning. its wonderful to be supporting these african communities.
gimme, gimme, gimme
I love the bear best, the perfect mix of gorgeous and crazy!
Have seen these in person! And you’re right, the pics dont do them justice! They are just DIVINE!
I would heart these for my bedroom chair X
Iwan Iwan Iwant
swoon
Me please!
I have recently been experimenting with embroidery and these are so inspiring! I love the heart cushion and the teddy would be perfect for my girl friends new baby. Good luck everyone! x
me and the bear – we want to live together
Love
just beautiful.
perfect for my new little one.
The bear is just so great!!
I will need to hide these from my son if I win….they are too cute I want them for myself!
Love these – so would my little boy.
Bear and heart goodness, yay! Pick me!
You go girls!
My newborn niece would adore these SIMPLY STUNNING!!
oh it really would make my day!!!
he & me, we heart eachother
Ooo my bear Ooo mon coeur! Lovely!
I heart the heart cushion!!
These are so bright and beautiful, I need some color in my home
Just so lovely!
Goodness me, that heart cushion is amazing!
There is so much going on on these objects for you imagination to run wild while you cuddle/rest your head.
These would look beautiful in my new little one’s room.
Beautiful. Wish I had access to such exotic locations.
Not only are the cushion and the teddy beautiful to look at it also such a wonderful idea behind the product. I’m all for handmade; uniqueness and ethical practice.
Yes Please!
So beautiful, the embroidery and applique are lovely
love. so beautiful!
SUPER CUTE! I lurveee the embroidery!
Ooh, they would be perfect gift for my cute little teeny weeny cute-as-a-button new born nephew, Elijah. Love them.
thank you mandy for making sure that our special bears and love hearts are all around australia – we just love what we do – we make each item with love for you – thank you thank you all the way from cape town
mm……..good