How to make a crochet heart granny square. Emma Wilkinson is our crochet heart hero!
As a pre-Valentine’s Day treat, she’s sharing a granny square tutorial that’ll melt your heart We’ll say it again: Emma is our crochet heart hero, and her blog, howtocrochetaheart.blogspot.com.au, is jam-packed with heart patterns and other lovely bits. Here’s just one of her crochet heart granny square tutorials, perfect for a quick Valentine’s gift. You will need: 4mm hook 3 balls of yarn in your choice of colour NOTE: US terms used throughout, ch = chain, dc = double crochet, sl st = slip stitch, tr = treble (UK conversion, ch = chain, dc = treble, sl st = slip stitch, tr = double treble) Method: Start with this mini heart. Making the heart: Chain 4, then (without doing a slip stitch) work all the round in the first chain 3 tr, 3 dc, 1 ch, 1tr, 1ch, 3dc, 3tr. 3 chains sl st in the centre, fasten off. First round. Grumpygirl: Tutorial: The amazingly flat crochet seam. Alrighty then, here goes.
Works best with contrast colours. And a smaller hook. Step 1. Prepare to be amazed. Step 2: Insert hook into inner loop of top square. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6. Aerial view of finished hook: Mandala Flowers. The above picture looks a bit blue because it was taken inside the sun tent by the river on Sunday.
I took a diversion from making bunting triangles and launched myself into Mandala mode. It was good fun trying something completely new from somebody else's Creative Mind for a change, I can't remember the last time I actually followed a pattern for something. These Mandalas first caught my eye over on Facebook, on the beautiful Patchwork Heart page. Heather's crochet is lovely, and her mandala table mats really captured my attention. So pretty, and such a lot of colour-play potential. Me being me, I couldn't resist a little play around with the pattern. I made a couple of smaller ones too, although I found that my shell petals came out a bit tight and made the mandala curl into a bowl. So I used the steam iron hovering technique on them, flattening and re-shaping the crochet with my fingers whilst it was still warm and damp from the steam (no pins).
Something pretty – the pattern. About this pattern: i found this pretty picture on pinterest and was totally smitten. after a lot of googling and searching i wasn’t able to find the pattern, so decided to figure the pattern out myself. dottie angel‘s pictures of her thrifty find was very helpful, and i was happy to find out that this is actually a pretty simple pattern, so novices – don’t be alarmed!
Just go ahead and try it out :) for more pictures, check out this, this or this post. Little woollie. Little Spring Mandala. Pattern: Made in K-Town by Barbara Please respect my rights as designer: do not sell, share, translate, or publish any parts of my patterns (including pictures) online or elsewhere without my permission.
Do not claim this pattern as your own. Neat Ripple Pattern. Ahhhhhhhh look at all those hooky ripplesome ripples, aren't they glorious?
I love crocheting this pattern, its relatively simple, rhythmic and soothing, but playing with colours in this way is also energising, exciting and a lot of fun. Well to me it is any road. there's something magical and mesmerising about the way the ripple effect makes the colours sing and dance next to each other, and it's a pattern I can see myself coming back to time after time. When I made my first ripple blanket last year (finished in August 2008), I followed a pattern in Jan Eatons book (the Soft Waves pattern), and it has to be said that at first this pattern was not plain sailing. But I persevered and eventually I cracked it. But truthfully I always think crochet patterns look and sound far too complex, more than they actually need to be.
So what I've done here for you is to write my own pattern. To start out, you need to crochet your foundation chain. That whole thing is a tr2tog (treble two together) How to crochet in rows without turning. I love crocheting in the round, because I like how the right side of crochet looks.
When you crochet in the round (spirals), you don’t need to turn, so you always have the pretty side of the stitches facing you. Typically, when you crochet in rows, you turn your work at the end of the row, which means that half of your rows have the ‘wrong side’ of the stitch facing you. Particularly because I like to crochet through the back loop (read this post to read about the different loops you can crochet into), I fantasized about ways to make my rows look like my crocheting in the round…