Free crochet pattern: A Warm-Hearted Square

Crochet Square_Warm Hearted PDF
Pattern for use by kind permission of Anneke Sevink
Anneke has kindly translated her Warm-Hearted Square pattern from the original Dutch.
The heart is a lovely way to show the children you care, by sending them a little love. The pattern is for the heart only.
Note: Pattern uses American terminology
American | = British |
slip stitch (sl st) | = single crochet (sc) |
single crochet (sc) | = double crochet (dc) |
double crochet (dc) | = treble (tr) |
treble crochet (tr) | = double treble (dtr) |
Row 1: Chain 9. Turn.
Row 2: Make single crochet in each of the next 8 chains. Turn(8 sts)
Row 3: Chain 1, make one single crochet in each of the stitches across. Turn.
Row 4: Continue to do rows until you have 8 single crochet rows.
Now we have a square.
Rnd 1: Turn the work and wrap yarn around the hook 2 times (tr) and put the hook through halfway point of the edge.
Rnd 2: Crochet 8 tr in the same stitch. End with a slipstitch in the corner.
Rnd 3: Same along the next edge, 8 tr, starting at the halfway point of the square edge. End with a slip stitch in the corner.
The heart is ready.
Don’t fasten off the yarn but continue with:
Ch 1.
Thereafter, one sc in each chain of the square part*
of the heart .
Two sc in each of the tr of the two rounded sections.
* At the corner of the square part, which is in fact the “bottom” of the heart, make 3 single crochet in one and the same sc stitch (increase).
Sew heart securely to plain square.
Knit-a-square South Africa, a partner of CreateCare Global.