I wanted to do a little pattern for Valentine’s Day, but I really don’t love making holiday themed things that you feel like you can’t or shouldn’t use the rest of the year.
A washcloth, though, can be used all the time, and it’s a sweet reminder for someone you love or for yourself, to give yourself a little love as you go through your daily routine.
This is a really quick and easy project, worked in Garter Stitch, with a little increasing, a little straight knitting and a little decreasing.
I happen to have a lot of red yarn, so I made mine red, but you can make your heart shaped washcloth whatever color you like.
What You’ll Need
- about 30 yards medium-weight cotton yarn of your choice (mine is Bernat Handicrafter)
- pair of size 8 US/5mm knitting needles
- yarn needle
Gauge is not important for this project, but I got about 5 stitches per inch/2.5 cm in Garter Stitch.
Finished cloth is about 7 inches (almost 18 cm) across at widest point and about 5.5 inches (about 14 cm) tall.
How to Knit a Heart Shaped Washcloth
Cast on 3 stitches.
Knit 1 row.
Knit in the front and back, knit 1, knit in the front and back. 5 stitches.
Knit 1 row.
Knit in the front and back of the first stitch, knit to last stitch, knit in front and back of last stitch.
Knit 1 row.
Repeat these 2 rows until you have 31 stitches.
Knit 10 rows straight. 
SSK, knit 13, k2tog.
Turn and work just these stitches. Knit across.
SSK, knit to last 2 stitches, k2tog.
Repeat these 2 rows until 2 stitches remain. Bind off.
Join yarn to remaining 16 stitches and work in the same manner, with decreases at each end of every other row, until 3 stitches remain.
SSK, Knit 1.
Bind off.
Weave in ends.
