5 Free Crochet Valentine Patterns (Linked to Each Designer)

Every free crochet Valentine pattern below is a real published pattern with written round-by-round instructions, linked to the designer who wrote it. Three are flat hearts for garlands, appliqué and cards; two are stuffed hearts. None takes more than an evening.

The first choice is flat or stuffed, and it decides the construction entirely — flat hearts grow outward in rounds from a magic ring, stuffed ones start as two humps and work downward to the point.

What you will need

These are scrap projects. A small amount of worsted or cotton, a 3.5 to 6 mm hook, and stuffing for the three-dimensional ones. Several patterns give more than one hook size so you can make a set of hearts in graduated sizes from a single set of instructions.

1. Three Hearts for Valentine’s Day

One pattern, three hearts, and they build on each other: heart one is a single round, heart two adds a second, heart three adds a third in a contrast colour. Finished sizes run from 1.75 by 2 inches up to 2.5 by 2.75. Rhondda Mol starts each with a double magic ring — two loops rather than one, so the centre cannot work loose when you pull it tight. Medium weight yarn on a 4 mm hook. Rated easy. Free pattern: Three Hearts for Valentine’s Day.

2. Easy Heart with Picot Edging

Cyprianne Nolan works this one in continuous rounds, starting across the top of the beginning chain and then back around the bottom so the first round encircles the chain entirely — that is what gives a flat heart without a visible starting seam. The picot edging finishes it. Worsted weight, and she gives three hook sizes (4, 5 and 6 mm) for hearts 4, 4.5 or 5 inches across. Beginner. Free pattern: Easy Heart with Picot Edging.

3. Love Hearts

June Gilbank’s pattern gives four hearts — small, medium, large and a stuffed puffy one — with each larger size building on the round before it, so you learn one shape rather than four. The whole first round is crocheted directly into the magic ring rather than into a starting chain. Worsted on a 3.5 mm hook for a firm fabric; she suggests going up to a 4 or 5 mm if you want it looser. Free pattern: Love Hearts.

4. Easy Amigurumi Stuffed Heart

A three-dimensional heart rather than a flat motif. Kylee Keller crochets the two rounded humps first, joins them, then works down in continuous rounds to the point — which is why the top of the heart comes out properly lobed rather than as a single dome with a dent. Worsted on a 4.5 mm hook, about 3.5 inches square, and it works in bulky too. Described as very easy. Free pattern: Easy Amigurumi Crochet Stuffed Heart.

5. Heart Cutie

Joey Diehl’s stuffed heart is made as two separate pieces joined together, deliberately leaving a slit that you stuff through and then close by hand with the leftover tail — a tidier finish than trying to stuff through a closing round. Medium weight yarn on a 5 mm hook, finishing at 3.5 by 3.5 by 1.5 inches. Rated intermediate, which is fair: the join is the fiddly part. Free pattern: Heart Cutie.

The 5 patterns compared

Frequently Asked Questions

What can I actually make with crochet hearts?

Garlands and bunting are the obvious ones, but flat hearts also work as coasters, appliqués on a plain jumper or bag, gift tags with a chain loop, and bookmark ends. The stuffed ones sit on a shelf or hang from a ribbon. Most of these patterns take under half an hour, so making a dozen is realistic.

Flat heart or stuffed heart?

Flat if it is going on something — a card, a cushion, a garland. Stuffed if it is the gift itself. The constructions are genuinely different: flat hearts are worked in rounds outward, stuffed ones start from the two humps and work down to the point.

How do I stop the point of the heart curling?

The point is where the most stitches are crowded into the least space, so it curls if the tension is tight. Block it if you are using cotton — it flattens immediately. With acrylic, go up a hook size instead; the Pretty Darn Adorable pattern is written for three hook sizes for exactly this reason.

What yarn should I use for Valentine’s crochet?

Cotton for flat hearts, because it holds a crisp shape and blocks well. Acrylic for stuffed ones, where softness matters more than definition and the shape comes from the stuffing rather than the fabric.

For a garland, the Three Hearts pattern gives you graduated sizes from one page. For a gift, the Amigurumi Stuffed Heart is the easiest of the two three-dimensional options. Each link goes to the designer’s own page with the full round counts.