Original heart in pink on left, new heart in green, bottom heart is an intermediate version.

This is the new, simplified heart pattern:

To make a heart about 2.5 inches wide you will need a small amount of DK yarn and some 3.5mm DPNS (either knit using one size smaller than recommended, or use a size bigger and felt it to make it nice and tight.)  A bulky yarn and 6.5mm needles make a 3.5 inch heart.

Cast 4 stitches onto a DPN.  Take two more DPNs and transfer stitches 1 and 3 purlwise onto one DPN and 2 and 4 purlwise onto the other.  

With the working yarn coming from the right side of the back needle, with a third DPN knit across the front needle then use the empty DPN to knit across the other two stitches.  

Round 2: K1, M1, K1 on each DPN (3 stitches per needle)

Knit 2 rounds

Round 5: K1, (M1, K1) twice on each DPN (5 stitches per needle)

Knit 2 rounds

Round 8: K1, (M1, K1) four times (9 stitches per needle)

Knit 3 rounds

Round 12: K1, (M1, K1) eight times on each DPN (17 stitches per needle)

Knit 3 rounds

Round 16: K1, M1, K16 on each DPN (18 stitches per needle)

Knit 1 round

Round 18 - begin right hump: K9, leave remaining 9 stitches on old DPN and ignore. Take new DPN and slip first 9 stitches onto it purlwise, then ignore.  Take fourth DPN and knit 9 remaining stitches (9 stitches per needle)

Knit 2 rounds on live stitches.

Round 21: (K1, K2tog) three times (3 stitches per needle)

Knit 1 round

Round 23: K2tog three times

Then cast off using the three needle bind off - you’ll end at the side closer to the centre of the heart.

Begin left hump - join yarn to dormant stitches, starting from the outer edge, and knit a round.  This is the equivalent of round 18.  Repeat as above, remembering to stuff the heart just before you do round 23.

Sew the hole at the centre and poke ends into middle of heart.

Hang up, leave lying around, give to your loved one.  

Love from The Sheep Shop xxx

Very excited to create my first ever design, not counting the “hat” made when first beginning.  Decided then not to bother following a pattern nor to do a gauge swatch - hat turned into a mushroom cloud, cue much hilarity.  It’s now a tea cosy, hiding a monstrous teapot.

This pattern uses the neat trick from the Beekeeper’s Quilt hexipuff, knitting two sides of a 3D item at once, so there’s no seams but also no fiddly small-diameter knitting in the round. Magic.  

To make a heart a few inches wide and high you will need a small amount of DK yarn and some DPNS - I used 3.5mms (am a loose knitter so most people would want 4mms).

Cast 4 stitches onto a DPN.  Take two more DPNs and transfer stitches 1 and 3 purlwise onto one DPN and 2 and 4 purlwise onto the other.  

With the working yarn coming from the right side of the back needle, with a third DPN knit across the front needle then use the empty DPN to knit across the other two stitches.  Knit two more rounds.  

Round 4: K1, M1, K1 on each DPN (3 stitches per needle)

Knit 3 rounds.

Round 8: K1, (M1, K1) twice on each DPN (5 stitches per needle)

Knit 3 rounds.

Round 12: K1, (M1, K1) four times on each DPN (9 stitches per needle)

Knit 3 rounds.

Round 16: K1, (M1, K1) eight times on each DPN (17 stitches per needle)

Knit 5 rounds (feels a bit tight on the needle now).

Round 22 - begin right hump.  K8, M1.  Leave remaining 9 stitches on old DPN and ignore. Take new DPN and slip first 8 stitches onto it, then ignore.  Take fourth DPN and knit 9 remaining stitches.   

Round 23 - K8, M1, K1 on first live needle, K1, M1, K8 on second needle (10 stitches per needle)

Knit 1 round.

Round 25: (K1, K2tog) three times, K1 on each DPN (7 stitches per needle)

Knit 3 rounds.

Round 29: K2tog three times, K1 on each DPN (4 stitches per needle)

Use two needle bind off (you should end towards the centre of the heart).

Start left hump - join yarn to dormant stitches and knit a round.  Remember one DPN only has 8 stitches on it so M1 on this on the first round towards the centre of the heart.  (I started on the front centre, following the above instructions except doing M1s at the other end of the rows so they are towards the centre of the heart, and doing K2tog, K1 instead of K1, K2tog - perhaps would be easier to start at the back edge then repeat exactly as above?). 

Stuff just before decreasing to 4 stitches.

Knit an extra half round (if started at the centre) in order to end bind off towards the centre of the heart.   Sew the hole at the centre and poke ends into middle of heart.

Optional: Felt it down to make nice and tight.  

Photo to come. And tweaks to get the shaping more pleasing, then lots will be found at The Sheep Shop!

Now to snack, washing up and bed… 

P.S. Pattern is basically the Berroco Heartfelt pattern modified to use the beekeeper’s quilt principle of construction.