Preparations for Valentine´s Day: Crochet Heart, Free Amigurumi Pattern - Toast to LOVE!

Amigurumi Heart - Free Pattern 

I´ve created a lovely little heart design, easy and a quick  make. They can be individual gifts, accessories (hair ties, also shown in this post) or decorations for gift bags. You just name it, enjoy!

Printable PDF + Videos can be found in my Etsy shop:

Crochet Heart Pattern with videos for each row

Crochet Tutorial:

Materials:

2,5 crochet hook
Yarn: Katia Bamboo, DK/8ply
yarn needle
stuffing

Abbreaviations used:

"magic ring": crochet over an adjustable loop with 6 single crochet, then pulling on the yarn tail until there is no hole left
"Neat finish"- one method to finish a toy piece in amigurumi. See the photos below.

Sc - single crochet
Inc - Increase
Invdec - invisible decrease

1) 6 sc into magic ring (6)
2) 6 x Inc (12)
3-4) sc all around (12)
fasten off

make another one:


1) 6 sc into magic ring (6)
2) 6 x Inc (12)
3-4) sc all around (12), don´t fasten off, you will join two parts together

Make the joining into next stitch of the end of the first part

You´ll have a new beginning of the row: hide the yarn tail by doing so: do your stitches over the yarn tail, by doing so, you don´t have to hide the yarn afterwards.

1) Make 12 sc on the first part and then 12 sc on the other part of the heart (24):
under both loops, there will be a little hole between two parts, we´ll come back later to close it up.

I use yarn as a stitch marker of a new row.

2) 5 sc, Invdec, 10 sc, Invdec, 5 sc

3) 4 sc, Invdec, 9 sc, Invdec, 5 sc

4) 4 sc, Invdec, 8 sc, Invdec, 4 sc, stuff

5) 4 sc, Invdec, 7 sc, Invdec, 3 sc

6) 3 sc, Invdec, 6 sc, Invdec, 3 sc, from now on, try to stuff after every new row

7) 3 sc, Invdec, 5 sc, Invdec, 2 sc

8) 2 sc, Invdec, 4 sc, Invdec, 2 sc

Two rows before the finishing up:

9) 2 sc, Invdec, 3 sc, Invdec, 1 sc

10) 1 sc, Invdec, 1 sl.st. leave a length of yarn for "neat finish" and closing up the hole. For a "neat finish": pick up all the sc left, one by one with the yarn needle and pull them together to have a neat and proper finish.

And also close up the hole:

Well done, your cute little heart is ready!

Make a nice bunch of hearts. Personally, I like the green one. In some disciplines, green is the color of heart :)

And how to turn them into hair ties - video tutorial