Crocheted Heart Potholder - Photo © Amy Solovay
Here's a quick project that's fun to crochet; it's a potholder with a striped heart design. I love heart motifs and use my heart potholders all year around, but I think the design is especially perfect for use during the month of February.
If you want yours specifically to be Valentine potholders, you could crochet them in red, pink and white -- or perhaps use three different shades of pink. Another option: match them to the colors in your kitchen.
Crocheted Flower Embellished With a Heart Pin - Photo © Amy Solovay
Embellish this pretty crocheted flower with a heart pinback for Valentine's Day. The pinback is a quick way to add detail and visual interest to a flower or other crochet project without going to a lot of additional effort.
I've shared several more ideas for decorating crocheted flowers with pinbacks. I hope they'll inspire you! Be sure to grab the free flower pattern too.
Flower Patterns:
Lace Stole - Photo © Rick Jackofsky
Wear something special and lovely on Valentine's Day; this pretty crocheted shawl would be a great choice. The shawl was designed by Erica Jackofsky, and the free crochet pattern is posted on our website.
Erica crocheted her project sample in a gorgeous shade of red that's perfect for Valentine's Day, but it can be worn on any chilly day.
If you'd like to check out a bunch more options, you're invited to visit our page of free shawl and wrap patterns. There are many beautiful styles to chose from.
More Free Patterns for Dressy Occasions
More Fun Stuff for Valentine's Day
Do you enjoy crocheting flowers and floral projects? I do!
I'm delighted to share two new free patterns for projects with a floral theme. I hope you'll enjoy them.
New Free Crochet Flower Pattern - Photo © Michael Solovay
This flower is similar to the flat flower applique I linked you to in a recent blog post. There are a couple of slight differences. Compared to the other flower petals, these petals each have one less stitch in them, making them slimmer; the stitches are treble crochets rather than double crochets, which results in slightly longer petals.
I designed this pattern because I wanted a flower with long, slim petals to use in a flower granny hexagon pattern. This flower works perfectly for that purpose.
New Free Hexagon Crochet Pattern - Photo © Michael Solovay
There are many different ways you could use those crocheted flowers, but this is one idea I came up with. I turned my sample flower into the center of a hexagon-shaped crochet motif.
In theory, I think the hexagon pattern would make fabulous afghans -- although I haven't actually tried joining them yet to make sure they fit together nicely.
Both the flower and the floral hexagon patterns are available for free on our website. If you'd like to try crocheting some of these goodies for yourself, you're invited to check out the patterns and give 'em a try.
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