Heart toy-pillow – Free crochet pattern

Free pattern by Clouds by Iris (translated).

Difficulty level: difficult

According to this description, you can crochet a large heart-shaped pillow using a crochet hook and Alize Puffy FUR yarn. The heart is easy to crochet, but experience is necessary when working with this fantasy yarn. The entire pillow is crocheted in half-double crochet without yarn overs, in a spiral.

The size of the finished toy-pillow is about 60 cm.

Materials and Tools:

• Alize Puffy FUR yarn (11 skeins)
• Crochet hook
• Filling 1-1.5 kg
• Stitch markers
• Needle
• Scissors

Abbreviations:

• MR — magic ring
• hdc — half-double crochet
• sc — single crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (…) x n — repeat n times

Begin with MR 6 hdc:

Row 1: 6 hdc (12)
Row 2: (1 hdc, 1 inc) x 6 times (18)
Row 3: (2 hdc, 1 inc) x 6 times (24)
Row 4: (3 hdc, 1 inc) x 6 times (30)
Row 5: (4 hdc, 1 inc) x 6 times (36)
Row 6: (5 hdc, 1 inc) x 6 times (42)
Row 7: (6 hdc, 1 inc) x 6 times (48)
Rows 8-11: 48 hdc

Crochet 2 pieces, without cutting the working yarn on the second piece. Connect the 2 pieces with 6 sc.

Rows 1-3: 88 hdc
Row 4: (20 hdc, 1 dec) x 4 times (84 hdc)
Row 5: (12 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (78 hdc)
Row 6: (11 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (72 hdc)
Row 7: 72 hdc
Row 8: (10 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (66 hdc)
Row 9: (9 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (60 hdc)
Row 10: 60 hdc
Row 11: (8 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (54 hdc)
Row 12: (7 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (48 hdc)
Row 13: 48 hdc
Row 14: (6 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (42 hdc)
Row 15: (5 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (36 hdc)
Row 16: 36 hdc
Row 17: (4 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (30 hdc)
Row 18: (3 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (24 hdc)
Row 19: 24 hdc
Row 20: (2 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (18 hdc)
Row 21: (1 hdc, 1 dec) x 6 times (12 hdc)
Row 22: 12 hdc

Decreases until the end.