How To Crochet Heart Stitch For Valentine's Day Crochet Patterns

Elevate your crochet creations with the delightful Crochet Heart Stitch, perfect for adding a heartfelt touch to your projects. This pattern effortlessly weaves charming heart shapes into your blankets, making it ideal for Valentine’s Day or cozy baby gifts. This versatile stitch can be customized with any color combination, creating beautiful, multi-colored hearts framed by a contrasting backdrop. This friendly and creative pattern brings warmth and love to every piece, ensuring your project is both captivating and unique.

Why Love This Guide?

Beginner-Friendly: Whether you’re a crochet beginner or looking to expand your skills, this stitch is designed to be easy to follow.
Customizable: You can use two, three, or even four different colors to create the heart shapes, allowing for a wide range of customization.
Versatile Use: This stitch can be incorporated into various crochet projects, adding a lovely heart pattern that enhances the look of your creations.
Clear Instructions: The tutorial walks you through each step with detailed instructions, from starting the chain to completing the heart clusters.

Step by step Heart Crochet Stitch Guide

Materials Needed:

Worsted yarn (four different colors suggested)
5 mm crochet hook
Scissors
Yarn needle for weaving in the ends

Pattern Instructions:

Foundation Chain:
- Use white yarn (or your chosen color for the rows between hearts).
- Make a chain in multiples of 6 (each 6 chains will make one heart). For example: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Repeat as necessary for the desired length.
- Add 3 more chains to the end of your foundation chain for the first row.
Row 1: Double Crochet:
- Make a double crochet (DC) in the fourth chain from the hook.
- Continue to make a double crochet in each chain across.
- At the end of row, chain 1 and turn your work.
Row 2: Single Crochet:
- Make a single crochet (SC) in the first stitch.
- Continue to make single crochets (SC) across the row.
- In the last stitch, prepare to change to the color for the hearts before completing the single crochet: cut a tail of the white yarn and join the new color.
Row 3: Half Cluster Hearts:
- Chain 2 (counts as first DC of the cluster).
- Yarn over, insert hook in the same stitch, pull through a loop, yarn over, pull through two loops (leave last loop on hook).
- Repeat the above step twice more in the same stitch until you have 4 loops on the hook.
- Yarn over and pull through all 4 loops.
- Chain 2.
- Skip 5 stitches, then create a cluster in the sixth stitch.
- Full Cluster: Yarn over, insert hook in stitch, pull through a loop, yarn over, pull through two loops (leave remaining loops on hook), repeat this two more times. You’ll have 4 loops on your hook, yarn over, pull through all 4 loops.
- Chain 2 and make another full cluster in the same stitch.
- Repeat the skip and cluster steps across the row.
- For the last heart, instead of a full cluster, make a half cluster (only pull through 3 loops), prep to join white yarn, pull through with white yarn.
Row 4: Single Crochet Across over Hearts:
- Chain 1 and turn.
- SC in the top of the last half cluster from previous row.
- Chain 1.
- Yarn over, insert hook into third stitch of the row below (skip 1, work into next 3), pull up and complete half double crochets (hdc).
- Repeat this 3 times: half double crochet (hdc) across 3 stitches.
- Chain 2, SC in the chain-2 space of the heart.
- Chain 2, yarn over, insert hook into next set of 3 stitches (skip 1), 3 hdc.
- Repeat to end, finish with SC, chain 1, turn.
Row 5: Double Crochet Across:
- Chain 2 (counts as first DC).
- Double crochet into the chain-1 space.
- Continue to make a double crochet in each stitch along.
- DC in chain-2 spaces and each double crochet until end.
- Chain 1, turn.