An Easy Heart Knitting Pattern for You

Years and years ago, before I even started writing here (and that was a LONG time ago!) I wrote the knitting page for a long-gone website called About.com. It was great fun and I wrote a lot of basic knitting patterns for that site, which are now lost to the ages (or nearly impossible to find in the depths of the Internet Archive).

I had a reader from the old days reach out to me asking about a particular pattern for a knit heart that I had posted many (MANY) years ago that she couldn’t find online any more. She noted that she liked the design of working from the bottom up and wanted to use them as sympathy gifts with an angel charm attached, as well as for other occasions.

Well I couldn’t possibly ignore such a heartfelt request, so after we dug up a very old version of the pattern from About, I decided to re-knit it and redo the instructions so that she and I and anyone else who might want to knit it could have it.

I have made so many of these hearts through the years. They use bulky yarn so they’re pretty fast to knit, and if you’re a new knitter you get some good practice working increases and decreases. I made these for teacher gifts for years, or to show appreciation to other people, and they’re just a cute little thing to make for Valentine’s Day, use as a pincushion, make a cat toy, or use a single heart as a coaster, applique, on a card…so many options.

It’s also great to make with any weight of yarn you have handy. You can hold two strands of worsted weight yarn together, add in some mohair, make stripes, whatever you want. I made a hundred versions and they’re all cute.

You can grab the pattern at Our Daily Craft. I hope you enjoy it as much as we have through the years!

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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