Love, Heart and Crochet

Valentine's day is nearing and its time to spread some love.
Crochet hearts are awesome and you can make keychains, buntings, coasters, pillows and more

Trying to consolidate some of the crochet hearts here with their links

Click on the picture to get the link for the respective pages.

• To begin with the heart coasters I made last year from Crochet Geek's pattern.

•   Granny sweet hearts by Nancy L Drew
  
   
  
  
  • Heat Pillows by Drops
    
    
    • Crochet hearts from Freshstitches
      
       
      
      
      • Crochet heart baskets
         
        Last but not least I loved this box of crocheted chocolates.. Makes a perfect finish 
        
        Happy Valentine's Day
        
        

Quick girl's purse

You can buy this pattern here

I always love small little purses. So when I got inspiration for this purse, I tried to create my own pattern. I added some appliques and stickers which I loved it. :)

Hair clips

 I love these hairclips.. If I had a chance to wear this during my childhood, these clips would have been all over my hair :)

Happy to share the pattens with you...

Crochet Hook : 1.65 mm
Yarn : Any 4 ply yarn

 Pattern 1:

Row1:Chain multiples of 2.(12 chains) Do not join Ch 1 and turn
Row2: 5 DC in the first chain, slip st on ch 2, 5 DC in the third chain, sl st in the 4th chain and continue till the end. Fasten off . Leave a long tail.
Now fold them in a circular way to form petals of a flower, and sew the flower to the clip

Pattern 2:

Row 1: Ch 17
Row 2: 3 DC in each chain and fasten off. Leave a long tail
Fold like the previous pattern in circular way to form a rose shape and sew with a bead to the clip

Pattern 3:

Row 1: In a magic ring, ch 1 and 12 SC.
Row 2: Join in the first SC and *Ch 2, 2DC in the same chain, 2 DC in the next chain, ch 2, slip stitch in the 3 rd chain* and repeat from * to *
This 6 forms the petals of the flowers.
Fasten off and sew to the clip

Chunky basket

 

Materials required:

Yarn: Chunky yarn
Crochet hook : Size K (6.5 mm)

Pattern:

Row 1: In the magic ring ch2 and 15 DC. Join on the first DC (15DC)
Row 2: 2DC in each DC  (30 DC)
Row 3: *2DC on first DC, 1 DC on the second* repeat around (45DC)
Row 4: *2DC, 1 DC, 1 DC* through out ( 60DC)

Row 5: SC on the outer loop alone ( 60SC)
Row 6: DC on both the loops ( 60 DC)
Row 7- 11: DC through out (60DC)

Row 12: Mark the center point. Above this center point the handle for the bag is going to come.

12 DC, Ch 5, skip 5 DC, 26 DC, Ch 5, skip the next 5 DC, 12 DC and join.

Row 13: 12 DC, 5 DC on the 5 chains, 26 DC, 5 DC on the 5 chains, 12 DC. Join and fasten off.

Sew the remaining yarns.

To make the basket stiffer, you can spray the quick starch or dip the bag on  starch water and dry the basket.

And finally :)