Crochet yourself a realistic heart that you can hold in your hand! You can give it to someone special, wear it, or even use a stress ball…

Pattern includes photographs showing how to arrange and attach the blood vessels. This requires a fair bit of stitching.

Each section of the heart is worked using the amigurumi method. You only need to know how to single crochet, increase, and decrease.

The heart pictured is less than 10cm long, made with a 2.0mm hook and DK yarn. A larger hook size and thicker yarn will produce a larger heart.

Pattern features a labelled diagram of the heart with information on the circulatory system.