Valentine's Day Project

Valentine's Day Idea

First you have to make a bunch of these crochet hearts.  For instructions, click here.

We used foam Valentine's Day stickers from the Dollar Tree.

We bought Valentine's Day suckers.  My daughter wrote her name on a bunch of the large foam heart stickers and stuck one to the back of each sucker.

Thread the sucker stick through the back of the crochet heart.  Use the Sweetheart stickers (or any other two stickers that are about the same size) on either side of the end of the sucker stick to keep it from pulling back through the heart.

Easy Crochet Heart

This crochet heart is super easy and quick!

This is a great project for using up excess yarn.  Any yarn weight will work.  Just use the crochet hook called for by the type of yarn.  For the heart above, I used two strands of yarn together and a 'K' hook.

Abbreviations (US Terms)
ch - chain
sc - single crochet
hdc - half double crochet
dc - double crochet
tr - triple (treble) crochet
sl - slip
st - stitch

First, make a 'magic ring'. Ch 2

Round 1: (3 tr, 4 dc, 1 tr, 4 dc, 3 tr) into magic ring.
Pull the magic ring mostly closed, ch 2, sl st into small hole in magic ring. Pull magic ring tightly closed.

Round 2: sc in ch-sp, 2 hdc in next st, 3 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in next 3 sts, 2 hdc in next st, (hdc, dc, hdc) in next st, 2 hdc in next st, 1 hdc in next 3 sts, 2 hdc in next st, 3 hdc in next st, 2 hdc in next st, sc in ch.  Cut yarn with about 4 inch tail.  sl st in ch, pull through.

To Finish: Pull the tail through the top ch toward the back.  Pull the ring tail through the top ch toward the front.  Tie them together at the top and cut off any excess.

Easy Crochet Heart using a really heavy weight yarn and an M crochet hook.