Crocheted heart for love and Valentines Day

Yesterday, I was sitting at my daughter’s bedside in the hospital, with my crochet hook going like mad.

When in distress, making that hook fly is one of the best ways to calm myself down.

We were hoping that she’d be home, and were disappointed that they weren’t ready to part with her yet.

She’s so lovable that it doesn’t surprise me that they want to hold onto her, but hey, we want her back, thank you very much!

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

Anyhow, we were talking about projects that we were designing for Valentines Day.

I said that I had been mulling over some ideas

and I said that I was working on a little crocheted heart.

She was just about to suggest that I do that,

so we both grinned at the synchronicity.

We often will do that…

the same concept or idea will go ‘blink’

at the same time for each of us.

Hearts are one of my most favourite

motifs to design, so I sat beside her,

with pen and paper and hook and

metallic thread from Kreinik in hand…

designing these little simple hearts.

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

The finished size of the heart

will be determined by

the thickness of thread or

yarn and the size of the crochet

hook that you use.

In the photo, there are

3 examples of the

Crocheted Love Heart

The little pink one is approximately

1 1/4 inches square and was crocheted

with #8 Fine Braid Metallic thread from Kreinik.

I used a vintage Boye size 9 steel crochet hook.

The variegated ombre heart was worked with a vintage Boye Crochet hook #7. It’s 1 3/4 inches square.

The silver heart is made with #16 medium metallic thread braid, and I worked it with a size 0 vintage hook. It’s approximately 2 inches square.

And here is my design for the

Crocheted Love Heart Motif  (c) by Noreen Crone-Findlay

Beginning with the picot at the tip of the heart, ch 4,  join last ch to 1st to form the picot.

Row 1: Ch 4, 6 tr in 4th ch from hook.

Row 2: Ch 3, turn, 2 dc in each tr (12 dc)

Row 3: Ch 1, turn; skip 2 dc; in next dc work (2 dc, 3 tr, 2 dc); skip next 2 dc; sl st in next dc; skip 2 dc; in next dc work (2 dc, 3 tr, 2 dc); skip next 2 dc;  sl st in next dc; cut yarn, pull through last loop on hook. Weave in end.

And, what can you use these heart motifs for?

Here is the link to a handful of happy heart projects for Valentines Day: Crocheted Love Heart projects

Note: This is an original Noreen Crone-Findlay design and is copyright. It is for your personal use only, so please don’t post the pattern to your blog or ’share’ it by copying it or transmitting it in any way. Thanks so much.