3D Heart Granny Square Free Crochet Pattern + Videos
Learn how to crochet this cute 3d heart granny square. With two video tutorials and a written pattern, things will be easy!
This cute crochet square has a three-dimensional heart in the center. This design has two parts: first, we make a heart, and then build up the square behind it. If you want, you can use the central part individually, as an applique or a decoration. Use this square for blankets, pillows, bags, or whatever you can think of!
This project was designed for YourCrochet.com. This article includes two video tutorials and a written pattern.
About the Project
This small crochet square has a circular center, which is a starting point both for the heart motif and the “background”. First, we crochet the heart motif, working the second round in the front loop only. This allows us to crochet with another color of yarn through the unused back loops and creates a three-dimensional effect.
The square is 6,5 x 6,5 cm (2.56 x 2.56 in), but remember that the choice of yarn and hook, as well as your crocheting style, may affect the final size.
This is an intermediate project, and the pattern uses standard US terms.
Video Tutorials
Let me lead you step by step through the whole process, whether you use your right or left hand to crochet.
Video for Right-Handed Crocheters
Video for Left-Handed Crocheters
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Materials and Tools
- Yarn: one skein of each color of Hobbii Portobello yarn (120 m/50 g, or 131 yds/1.76 oz; 60% Cotton, 28% Acrylic, 12% Wool). I used about 2 g (0,07 oz) of yarn in total to make one square. My colors: Open Sea (79), Turkish Blue (88), Wild Berry (56), Antique Rose (53), Nougat (09), and Misty Green (113). You can use any other Worsted-weight yarn.
- 3.5 mm crochet hook
- scissors
- yarn needle (optional)
Stitches and Abbreviations
- MR – magic ring
- ch – chain stitch
- sl st – slip stitch
- sc – single crochet
- hdc – half double crochet
- dc – double crochet
- tr – treble crochet
- st – stitch
- ch-sp – chain space
- increase
- FLO – front loop only
- BLO – back loop only
- standing dc – standing double crochet, a type of chainless start to the round
- C1, C2 – different colors of yarn.
Pattern Notes
There are two stages to this project:
- We create a heart motif in color one (C1), with the second round worked in the front loops only.
- Using color 2 (C2), we crochet in the back loops only, to build the square behind the heart motif. In the last round, we attach the heart in three places to prevent it from curling up.
3D Crochet Heart Square Free Pattern
To learn how to crochet basic stitches, please see my playlist for beginners on YouTube.
Crochet Heart Motif
In C1 – color one.
Start
Magic ring
Round 1
3 ch, 11 dc into the loop, close with a slip stitch.
Round 2
In this round, all stitches are worked through the front loop (FLO).
Ch 4, 3 tr in one st, 3 dc in one st, 2 hdc in one st, 1 sc, 2 hdc in one st, *1 dc, 1 ch, 1 dc* all in one st, 2 hdc in one st, 1 sc, 2 hdc in one st, 3 dc in one st, 3 tr in one st, 4 ch, sl st (also in the front loop, between the “bumps”).
Weave the yarn to the wrong side of the work, cut it, and secure the ends.
Squaring The Heart
Turn the heart over and look at the inner circle. We will work the stitches into the “lines” that create the circle outline. Count them – you should have 12, with one at the bottom and one at the top of the heart. If you want, you can use stitch markers to keep track of them.
Take the background color yarn. We will start at stitch number 11 in our picture. The one to the left side of the ‘valley’ at the top of the heart (or to your right if you’re left-handed).
How to Make a Standing Double Crochet
To learn how to do a standing double crochet, watch this tutorial on youtube.com by Tamara Kelly from Moogly.
I always start standing double crochet by tying a slip knot on the hook. Tamara doesn’t do that in the tutorial, but it may help you keep the yarn end on the hook. Then, yarn over, but keep the yarn with your fingers so it doesn’t untwist and unravel. Pull up a loop, and work through the loops on the hook like in a normal double crochet.
Prep for round 3
Turn the heart right side up towards you, and fold it so you can see the ‘lines’ on the wrong side.
Insert your hook in the right stitch (number 11, which is now on your right for right-handed, and on your left for left-handed crocheters), and work a standing double crochet there, as explained above. This is your first double crochet of round 3.
Continue with the pattern for this round as follows:
Round 3
In C2 – color 2. Remember that the first stitch of this round is a standing double crochet, as explained above.
(*2 dc in one st* x 3, 2 ch) x 4, sl st.
Round 4
In this round, we will continue enlarging the square, while “attaching” the heart motif in three places (bolded text).
Side 1: 3 ch, 5 dc, *1 dc, 1 dc together with the back loop of the 2nd tr, 2 ch, 1 dc together with the back loop of the 2nd tr (the same one), 1 dc* all in the corner ch-sp,
Side 2: 6 dc, *2 dc, 2 ch, 2 dc* all in the corner ch-sp,
Side 3: 2 dc, 2 dc together with the back loop of the bottom tip-ch1, 2 dc, *2 dc, 2 ch, 2 dc* all in the corner ch-sp,
Side 4: 6 dc, *1 dc, 1 dc together with the back loop of the 1st tr (counting from the hook), 2 ch, 1 dc together with the back loop of the 2nd tr (the same one), 1 dc* all in the corner ch-sp, sl st.
The shortened version of this round’s pattern would look like this:
3 ch, 5 dc, (*2 dc, 2 ch, 2 dc* all in the corner ch-sp, 6 dc) x 3, *2 dc, 2 ch, 2 dc* all in the corner ch-sp, sl st.
It’s done!
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