For this tutorial you need your selected yarn I'm using Stylecraft special DK in
Fiesta a three millimeter crochet hook and some scissors to begin your heart
you want to start off with a Magic Circle to do your Magic Circle you want
to put your yarn over the front of your hand you want to bring the other piece
of yarn across to make an X holding onto these pieces if you are turning your
hand to face the ceiling grab your hook and put it underneath the first piece of
yarn grab the second piece of yarn and pull it through turn your hand back over
and then just gently bring your hand away so that you've got a circle grab
the long piece of yarn that's still attached to your ball of yarn and hold
like you would and when you are just doing any other crochet stitch you then
want to yarn over and pull through to secure your Magic Circle I like to just
hold here and just give it a little bit more of a pull on the loose end just to
make the circle a little bit smaller which makes it easier when you start
your first round we're now ready for round one so you want to chain two to
begin with so one yarn over two and then we're going to work three double treble
crochets into this middle circle so it's double treble in UK and this is triple
in US so yarn over twice insert into the middle circle yarn over pull through
and you'll have four loops on your hook yarn over pull through two
yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two so then you have what
looks like two double trebles just pull that one a little bit closer to the
other so that they're sitting nice and snug off against each other
you then want to do another two so yarn over twice insert yarn over pull through
and again you'll have four loops on your hook yarn over pull through two and
you'll have three hoops on your hook yarn over pull through two and you'll
have two hoops on your hook yarn over and pull through your last two and again
pull that close to your first two so one more double treble yarn over twice
insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through
two yarn over pull through two and then pull tightly close together at this
point I like to just grab on to the work here pull on the loose end and just make
that center circle a little bit small it just makes it easier to work with we're
then going to do four treble crochets so treble in the UK double in the US so
yarn over insert yarn over pull through so there's three loops on the hook yarn
over pull through two yarn over pull through two
that's one yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull
through two yarn over pull through two that's two yarn over insert yarn over
pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two one more yarn
over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull
through two and I'm just going to pull those round again so that they're a bit
closer to each other we then want to do one double treble so one triple in US
yarn over twice insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn
over pull through two and yarn over pull through two again pull that round
pull your circle a little bit tighter again and that is half of our heart next
is another four treble crochet so four double and US yarn over insert yarn
over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two
so that's one
two
three
four now as you get round to this side of the heart you'll notice that you'll have
your loose strand here as well you want to be working around both of those
so around the middle strand and then the loose strand we then have four double
treble yarn over twice insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through
two yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two so that's one
two
three we're then going to chain two and we're going
to make this circle as small as we can now so hold onto your work and you just
want to give that loose strand a really good pull and it just makes that centre
circle disappear now that we've chained two you want to
insert your hook into the very centre grab your yarn pull it through and then
just slip stitch it so just pull it through the loop on the hook after
you've done that just give that loose strand a good pull again just to make
the centre as small as possible now you're ready for round two so it helps
if you just bring your hook which is at the back of your work just towards the
front so the first section we're going to be working in is this section here
when we first started the first round we chained two and it formed this space here so
what you want to do is do a double crochet which is single crochet in the
US so insert your hook into that space yarn over pull through yarn over and
pull through the two on there and then we're going to do two half treble which
is two half double in the US will shall be doing it in this space here that
we've just formed so yarn over insert the hook into that space yarn over pull
through and you'll have your three loops on the hook yarn over and then just pull
through all those loops on the hook you might just have to give it a bit of a
wiggle just to make sure that you can get it through and we're going to do
exactly the same thing so yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull
through all three we're then I'm going to do three half treble into the next chain
space along so yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through
all three yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through
all three yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all
three into the next chain space we will do two half treble yarn over insert
yarn over pull through
yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three now
into the next three chain spaces we'll do a half treble in each one yarn
over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three yarn over
into the next chain space yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three
yarn over into the next chain space yarn over pull through yarn over pull through
all three we then have two half trebles into the next space so yarn over insert
yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three and then one more into
that same chain space
now we're at the bottom of the heart so we're going to do three stitches in the
next chain space so we're going to start off with one half treble which is half
double in the US so yarn over insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull
through all three one treble so yarn over insert into the same space yarn
over pull through yarn over pull through two yarn over pull through two so that
makes the point at the base of the heart and then another half treble yarn over
insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three so we are halfway
round were just over halfway round our heart
we're then going to do 2 half treble into the next chain space so yarn over
insert yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three yarn over insert
yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three in the next three
chain spaces we're going to do three half trebles so yarn over insert yarn
over pull through yarn over pull through all three yarn over into the next chain
space yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three yarn over into
the next chain space yarn over pull through yarn over pull through all three
we then have two half trebles into the next chain space yarn over insert yarn
over pull through yarn over pull through all three one more
three half trebles into the next chain space
two half trebles into the next chain space
a double crochet or single in US into this chain space here insert the hook yarn
over pull through yarn over pull through and then inset your hook into one of the
chain spaces from the last chains from the first round pull through pull
through again snip off your yarn and pull it nice and tight now a lot of you have
been asking me what I do with my ends what I usually do is just grab a darning
needle
and I will just literally weave in and out the work
nowhere in particular just somewhere where you can't see it and just really
make sure that it's not going to come out anywhere
and then once I'm satisfied that it's all in properly
I'll just go close to the work snip it off and then you can't see it and
that's your heart
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