Heart Valentine's Day containers

Looking for a cute, easy, fun crochet pattern for Valentine’s Day? Look no further! This little heart shaped container is a perfect gift for your loved one, your Mom or Dad, sister or brother, co-worker, child care provider, teacher, boss, neighbor, mail carrier, dentist, etc. The list goes on and on. Who wouldn’t love getting a cute little crocheted heart filled with candies, love notes or flower petals?

End of foundation round

Here is the free crocheted heart container pattern. I used an H(5mm) hook and some worsted weight yarn in red, light pink, and white. This is a great stash buster pattern! Each heart uses such a small amount of yarn that you can make one in every color! I decided to make some for my niece’s child care providers last year. I figured, after they ate the candy inside, they could use the heart container as a ring holder, put it on their nightstand to hold chapstick, or hang it up in their classroom as a fun Valentine’s Day decoration!

About half-way through Round 1.

To start the pattern, I used a magic ring. If you haven’t figured out how to do this, I advise you to take the 10 minutes. It seriously won’t take you more than that. The link to the pattern also has a great video and pictures explaining it in great detail. This simple magic circle eliminates the large hole you see after starting a project like this. A magic circle is also the perfect way to start any stuffed animals or hats.

End of Round 2

End of Round 3.

If you wanted to, you could stop the pattern anywhere along these first couple of rounds and you would have a cute heart to use as a hair clip or an accessory on a hat. Or, you could make a bunch of hearts and string them together for a garland. The possibilities are endless!

Going in to the front loop in Round 4.

I altered the pattern slightly because I wanted the bottom to be flat instead of rounded. To do that, I did Round 4 only in the front loop. That creates a nice edge between the bottom and the sides.

This is how the  bottom looks when you crochet in the front loop of Round 4.
See how it is nice and flat? :)

Crocheting Round 5

A side view of Round 5

After crocheting the hearts, I wanted to add a little something to them to really make them pop. So, I found some pretty red, white, and pink patterned fabric pieces at JoAnn’s Fabric. 

I cut the fabric into a heart shape to fit inside the container. I used some tacky glue to glue the fabric to the bottom of the crocheted heart container and  let it dry for 24 hours.

Now it’s time to fill them with goodies! You can fill them with chocolates, conversation hearts, other Valentine’s Day candy, flower petals, or whatever your heart desires!

If you are looking for another fun Valentine’s Day crochet pattern, check out my adorable heart ear warmers blog post from last year. My niece, Emily, is modeling it in this picture.




No matter how you celebrate Valentine’s Day, make sure you give your loved ones a hug and let them know you love them. Life is too short to not tell people what they mean to you! Enjoy and happy crocheting! 

Heartwarming Ear Warmer

My twin sister, Elisa, and niece Emily. Love them so much!

My beautiful niece, Emily, modeling her heart headband. :)

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! A good friend of mine, Sabrina, found this super cute heart headband pattern and sent it to me. When I looked at it, I thought it would be an easy pattern and a great Valentine’s gift for my sweet niece, Emily.

 I sent the link to my twin sister Elisa to see if she thought Emily would like it. Later on that day, Elisa told me when she showed the picture of the headband to Emily and asked if she would like one, Emily smiled and whispered, “Yeeeahhh.”  

With that enthusiastic go-ahead, I went out to JoAnn and bought Wool Ease Quick & Thick yarn in Poinsettia – I knew Emily would love the sparkly look of this thread! 

I already had some I Love this Yarn from Hobby Lobby in a white sparkle color, so I was set. Using the pattern Sabrina sent me (thanks for thinking of me, Sabrina!)  I made an adult sized one for my sister and the 5-10 year old size one for my niece. She isn’t quite 5 yet but I figured she’d grow into it.

I used a 10mm hook for both headbands.

The link to the pattern has both a crocheted and a knitted version. 

http://www.creatiknit.com/archives/2-valentines-free-head-warmer-patterns/

   

I love the sparkly look to this yarn!

The adult size headband before I added the border. 

For the adult size hat, I crocheted a total of 34 rows of the pattern back and forth. I stopped a little bit short of the recommended 16.5” because I wanted to create a single crochet border around the edge. 

Love the cleaner look the border adds to the headband!

I like the look of the border – it cleans it up a bit. So, after the 34 rows, I chained 1 and single crocheted around the entire headband, chaining 1 in each corner. 

Single crocheting the two edges of the headband together.

Then, I single crocheted the two edges of the headband together and turned it inside out to hide the seam.

Isn't she adorable?!

For my niece’s hat (5-10 yr sizing), I did 30 rows (stopping short of the recommended sizing) and single crocheted the border around just like I did for the larger size.

Making the heart using two strands of the white yarn.

Now, for the hearts. I used the white sparkled yarn for the larger heart. Because it was so much thinner than the Quick & Thick yarn, I doubled up the yarn and crocheted with two strands instead of one. I still used the 10mm hook and continued to follow the pattern exactly for the larger heart. 

The smaller one is done in the same red sparkly yarn as the main headband but I used a 9mm hook to make sure it was small enough to fit inside the larger heart. After crocheting the two hearts, I stitched them together with a yarn needle and then stitched it onto the headband.

My nephew, Adrian, wanted in on the action!

I barely had enough of the red yarn to make the two headbands and two smaller hearts – perfect use of the one skein I bought!

                                                            

What a beautiful model Emily is! :)