Sweetheart Shrug Mini Tutorial

Here's the tutorial for making your own sweetheart shrug. This project is very similar to Butterfly Shrug (tutorial here), so I have just highlighted the differences from there. I highly recommend reading the butterfly shrug tutorial first and then coming back to this to better understand it.

Cut the back of the shrug using another shrug for sizing.

For a quick comparison, here's what butterfly shrug front looked like.

Notice that the width is less than the back, neck is higher and it ends with a small straight line, whereas the sweetheart shrug ends with a point.

Here's the shape that I cut the front halves into. Each half is equal to back in width, so together they are twice the width of the back. Notice that compared to butterfly shrug, I kept the neckline much lower in this shrug.

Gather the neck line of front halves. Join with the back at the shoulders.

Now cut a 2 inches wide strip of fabric equal to neckline in length.Sew it along the neckline at the inside ( wrong side of shrug)

Now turn it outside and top-stitch. You will have raw end of the strip showing on the outside. This is ok. We'll take care of it later on.

Add the sleeves ( refer tutorial here). I also cut the cuffs of the sleeves slanted instead of straight, I thought it went well with the heart shaped hemline.
You may go with either slanted or straight sleeves.

Cut scallops on the raw edge of the strip at the neck-line. This will help it sit evenly at the neck. Don't worry about making these perfect, they are going to get covered later on.

Cut a 3 inches wide strip, the length should be twice the neckline. Sew two seams in the center of this strip ( do not back-stitch ) and gently pull the bobbin threads to ruffle it.
Sew it along the neckline. Tuck the ends inside. Sew a pretty Ribbon at both ends of neckline. Add some fray check to the raw ends of the ribbon, or keep it over a flame for few seconds to melt the ends. This will keep the ribbon from fraying.
Finish the hems with rolled hem.