This tutorial will show you how to crochet a heart-shaped stitch. I had seen cute heart blankets in a few different places but wasn’t able to find any patterns or tutorials for making a heart shape within your regular crochet row. I experimented with a variety of different stitches and combinations until I finally came up with this tutorial. The hearts are small and puff out slightly which I think is very cute <3

I chose to make a baby blanket with this stitch and will share the details of that pattern throughout the tutorial. However, feel free to get creative with this heart stitch technique to make anything that you would like. I would love to see how you have used my heart stitch in your own projects and would be really happy to see your projects tagged with @matayamade or added to the comments below 🙂

Supplies needed to make the heart stitch blanket

• Loops and Threads Soft & Shiny In “Vintage Indigo” x 3 balls
• Loops and Threads Soft & Shiny in “Powder Blue” x 1 ball
• Loops and Threads Soft & Shiny in “Sunshine” x 1 ball
• 5mm hook

*Finished baby blanket size using these supplies is 32 inches (81cm) square.

Heart Stitch Blanket Pattern

Start your blanket with one row of 110 foundation single crochet stitches. (If you would prefer, you can just chain 110 and then single crochet into each chain.)

I like to use a bigger hook size for my first row so that it is easier to work my next row into it. In this case I used a 5.5mm for my foundation row and a 5mm for the rest of the blanket.

Use Vintage Indigo colour unless otherwise indicated.

The heart rows are worked in two different colours. If you haven’t worked with multiple colours at once you can see my tutorial for that here.

• 2. hdc across
• 3. hdc blo
• 4. hdc blo
• 5. hdc blo
• 6. ch 1, hdc into 1st 2st [Sunshine: (tc, dc, sc, dc, tc) into next st. Vintage Indigo: hdc next 4 st] Repeat from [ to ]
• 7. hdc across (1 hdc into each sc space and into each hdc stitch)
• 8. hdc blo
• 9. hdc blo
• 10. hdc blo
• 11. hdc blo
• 12. ch 1, hdc into 1st 2st [Powder Blue: (tc, dc, sc, dc, tc) into next st. Vintage Indigo: hdc next 4 st] Repeat from [ to ]
• 13. hdc across (1hdc into each sc space and into each hdc stitch)
• 14. hdc blo
• 15. hdc blo
• 16. hdc blo
• 17. hdc blo
• Repeat rows 6 – 17 until desired size. I repeated 5 more times to give me 6 rows each of sunshine and powder blue hearts.
• End with one more repeat of rows 6 – 11.

Creating the border on your heart stitch blanket

To start your blanket border attach the vintage indigo yarn and sc around, working 1 st into the side of each hdc stitch on the side of the blanket. Corner: (1sc, ch 1, 1sc)

• 2. Vintage Indigo hdc around. Corners: hdc, ch2, hdc
• 3. Indigo repeat row 2
• 4. Powder Blue sc, ch into each stitch around. Corners (sc, ch2, sc)
• 5. Indigo hdc around. Corners (hdc, ch2, hdc)
• 6. Indigo sc around Corners 3sc

I hope you love this tutorial and are able to create your own heart crochet project with it. If you need help with any part of this tutorial feel free to comment below or shoot me a message / email. I love to hear from my fellow crafters!

If you can post your finished heart stitch projects either on Instagram @matayamade or in the comments below I would love to see how your heart stitch projects turned out 🙂

Happy crafting!