We were having Christmas-decorating day at school. The kids in my 3rd grade were making paper hearts in different shapes and we were chatting and eating cookies and just relaxing.

I had a crochet hook in my bag - and we had a skein of yarn from a previous project in a drawer, and we started talking about how to make a crochet heart. How big it was supposed to be, etc, and one of the kids came up with the idea of making a chain string between two hearts, so you can drape them over a branch.

I started playing, and came up with this square of single crochet (am), topped with two curves of 9 Double Crochet st (am) each. Finally edged with a bit more single crochet. (and you can add an extra round if you want them bigger).

The Pattern uses British Terms, and links to a site where you can see how to make the stitches and see how they translate to US terms.

Gauge and yarn weight/hook size is not important. You want a heart that is firm, so choose materials accordingly.. (or starch it.. :-))