A Knitted Heart Shape for 3 dimensional softies [L.O.V.E., L.O.V.E.]
Hi, Guys I’m Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit.
Today, we are going to knit this heart shape in Stockinette Stitch.
It creates a nice, smooth surface.
And since stockinette stitch tends to curl, this pattern has the heart shape edging in
garter stitch.
And it is absolutely perfect to knit up as puffy hearts and softies.
So, I have designed a really simple knitted puffy Heart Shape.
The link to download the FREE pattern is in the description below.
This heart shape is totally perfect for Valentine’s Day and all year round as a gift to anyone
you love!
So, to begin, we are going to cast on three stitches.
Now, I'm going to be detailed in this tutorial.
It's not a knit along.
If you would like to knit along with me, you can, you just will have to press pause every
now and again because I will skip over the boring parts.
So, here we are one our very first row.
It's our knit row.
All we have to do is knit these three stitches.
Super duper simple.
Okay, it is increase time already.
So, on row two, KFB, that means Knit Front and Back.
So we are going to knit.
Now instead of taking it off the needle, we then knit into the back throw our yarn around.
We are going to come off, and you will see we have two stitches where we only had one.
And now we're just going to purl one.
And the last stitch is again KFB.
So let's watch this again.
So we are going to knit, and then rather than taking it off the needle, we go into the back,
throw your yarn around, knit through, get back into focus, and were we had three stitches,
now we have five.
Super cool.
I Love Increasing!
It's great.
And we are starting the first of our two humps, I call them, on the very top of our little
hearts.
So, here on row three, you will see, super simple, we are only going to be knitting all
the way across.
And this is five stitches of knitting right here.
And already, we have our last increase row.
So, we are going to start with five stitches, and turn it into seven.
So, here we go.
The very first one, it's knit front and back.
So, knit, and then go into the back throw it around, knit through, and we have two stitches
where we only had one.
And these next three stitches are just going to be purl, and we are purling because we
are doing the stockinette stitch, which makes such a nice smooth surface.
And on our very last one, this is our last knit front and back, so we are going to knit,
don't take it off the needle, come around to the back, throw your yarn around, here
we go, knit through, awesome.
Okay, so now we have seven stitches already.
Super cool.
Okay, so then on row five, we are just going to knit all seven stitches and this is the
completion of hump one already.
I told you it was a quick knit!
This goes really fast.
And you know what?
Believe it or not, once you've done this a couple times, this pattern is really easy
to memorize and just do in front of the TV without having to think too much.
Okay, so those seven stitches, we are going to keep on that needle, we are going to take
our other needle and we are going to start over again.
We are going to cast on the other needle.
And using our original needle, we are going to be making hump two.
So, as you see, hump one just stays on the needle as we create hump two.
So, I'm not going to bore you with making hump two all over again.
You can stop and rewind if you're knitting along with me.
Or you can just refer to your printed pattern.
Okay, so, here we go.
We are going to knit the final seven stitches of hump two.
Now, I want you to see that when we do this, we should have both humps with the right sides
on the right side of the needles.
Now, if you look, and you see that one has the wrong side and one has the right side,
just go ahead and carefully take them off your needle and flip them around.
Okay, so now we are going to simply knit across, and we are going to, according to the pattern
here, we just have three rows.
No increases, no decreases.
This first one, we are going to knit one and then we are going to purl twelve all the way
across.
And here in the middle you'll see this is where the two humps get joined.
Super simple.
Super duper simple.
So we just continue on, on row six here, purling our twelve stitches, and on the last one,
you will knit.
Okay it's time for row seven.
And all we have to do is knit all the way across the row.
We have fourteen stitches, I'm not going to bore you.
Go ahead, hit pause on the video if you are knitting along with me.
Okay, so this is what it looks like.
We have all fourteen stitches.
Looking really, really good.
It's time for row eight and we are going to knit one, and now we are going to purl twelve.
Again, these last three rows that we've done, there is no increasing, no decreasing, we
are just sort of making the body of our heart right here.
Oh, it looks really good.
And now it is time to decrease.
So, the first decrease is going to be here on row nine.
We are going to knit one and then we are going to do slip slip knit and that is slip and
slip and then then we knit into the front.
If this is new to you, we will be doing it a few times if you're just watching.
If you're knitting along, you may want to pause and rewind it a couple of times.
And there we are.
Where we had two, now we have one.
And we are going to knit across the row for eight stitches until we are at our final three
stitches.
At that point, it is time to do another decrease, which is the knit two together.
This is my favorite one.
Knit two together, and knit one.
Now on our next row, all we have to do is super easy, is knit one, we are going to purl
ten, and knit one.
A little bit about the decreases that we are doing.
The reason that they're different is that the stitches will slant into the work.
On slip slip knit, it slants one way, on knit two together, it slants the other way, so
it helps our heart shape up the way we would like it to.
So, here we go, row eleven.
Slip, Slip, and we are going to knit and we are going to stay in focus.
Throw it around.
Awesome.
Okay, so now we are going to knit six.
This is going by pretty fast, isn't it?
After knitting six, we will be left with three stitches and we are going to knit two together.
There we go, we are knitting two together.
Knit one.
Awesome, we have ten stitches on our needle now.
And it is time to just knit one and then we are going to purl eight, there is one, there's
two, and at the end, there is eight and we are going to knit one.
Again, just go ahead and pause if you're trying to keep up with me.
This isn't a traditional knit along, I am trying to edit a little bit, so I don't bore
you.
And here we go with another decrease.
We are going to slip, we are going to slip, and we are gong to knit.
And again, I have the free download of the .pdf pattern in the link below, so if you
have a printer, it would be really great to print it out and when I'm knitting something
new, I definitely like having a printed pattern so then I can write on it.
I can mark off each time I finish a row, so if you like to knit like that, the download
is available to you for FREE!
And here we knit two together, we knit one, and now we only have eight stitches.
And of course, we are going to knit one, and then purl these six until we get to the final
stitch.
And at the final stitch, we will be knitting one.
Momentarily.
One moment please.
Here we go, that's purl five, purl six, and knit one.
Yay!
Okay, so now we are already at row fifteen.
Oh, and our heart is definitely shaping up.
We are almost done.
So we are going to knit one.
Again, we are going to decrease.
It's going to be the slip and the slip and the knit.
Right into it just like that.
Throw it around.
Knit through, yay.
Now we are only going to have to knit two, one and two, until we get to our final three
stitches here.
And we are going to knit those two together.
Knit them together.
Decrease.
And knit one.
Alright.
How many stitches do we have?
We have six, so that means we are going to knit one, and the we are going to purl four.
And finish this up by knitting that one.
Okay, row seventeen!
This is going to go by really fast.
Knit one, slip and slip and knit them together.
And then we already, we knit these two together.
There we go.
And then we just knit one.
Yay, so we have four stitches.
We are going to finish up here.
We are going to knit one, purl two together, our little point is almost done, alright.
Knit one, and now for the four stitches, we are going to turn them into two.
And we are just going to keep this easy.
I'm going to go ahead, and there we go, okay, here we go, looks great.
Awesome.
Okay, so now we are just going to bind off.
We are going to knit those last two stitches, and we are going to take that one stitch,
over and around, to just do a regular traditional bind off.
Let's get back into focus here.
And with our tapestry needle just pull the yarn through.
Once you have knitted up two of your heart shapes, to make up the front and back of your
softie, simply tack them together with the right side of your pieces facing together
with yarn using your tapestry needle.
Turn them inside out.
Then it's great, you can just fill them up with your little loose ends, so you don't
need to bother doing anything with those and you can fill them up with either lavender
seeds which i love to do, stuffing, or bits of yarn, and close them up.
And you are done.
A perfectly knitted heart softie.
Your friends, family, and loved ones will cherish this thoughtful handmade gift made
especially by YOU!
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Bye!