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Wool heart

This Christmas, fill your home with color with these wool hearts. You can hang them on the tree or use them as decorations on doors or shelves. You choose the place and the colors!

YOU WILL NEED:

Caricia Classic yarn, COL 041, 042, 052, 002, 024, 033.
Crochet hook Nº 3.
Tapestry needle.

STITCHES USED:

Striped stitch: Knit each heart using two colors, changing color in each round.
To make the small heart. Single crochet: sc. (see tutorial single crochet)
For the medium heart. Half double crochet: hdc. (see tutorial half double crochet )
For the large heart. Double crochet: dc. (see tutorial double crochet )

HOW TO MAKE THE HEART?

To begin, we will make two cylindrical shapes that we will then join to form our heart.

Small heart

In striped stitch:

Magic circle (make 2 separately)

Round 1: make a magic circle of 10 sc. Join with 1 slip stitch.

Round 2: *2 sc in each st.*, repeat from *to*. (20 sts).

Rounds 3, 4, and 5 are knitted without increases (20 sts). Close and fasten off. Round 6: join both semicircles by knitting 2 central sc and continue the rest separately, bordering the two spherical shapes, until they are completely joined. (36 sts). Round 7: *decrease 1 st, knit 4 sc.*, repeat to the end of the row. (30). Round 8: *decrease 1 st, knit 3 sc.*, repeat to the end of the row. (24). Round 9: knit without decreasing (24). Round 10: *decrease 1 st, knit 2 sc.*, repeat to the end of the row. (18). Round 11: *decrease 1 st, knit 1 sc.*, repeat to the end of the row. (12). Round 12: knit without decreasing (12). Stuff with fiberfill. Round 13: decrease 6 sts. (6). Finish by closing all stitches. Leave a 50 cm long yarn tail. To make the loop With a tapestry needle, close and fasten off the tip of the heart and thread it lengthwise between the two semicircles. With the crochet hook, pick up the yarn and secure it by making 1 slip stitch. Chain 28 stitches and then close again with a tapestry needle, fasten off and hide the yarn tail among the stuffing.