Chocolate Heart is a simple colour-block knitted placemat pattern, own design by Blue Balloon Atelier. Very satisfying and frugal pattern. It can be made rather quickly and it uses very little yarn, often scraps from much bigger projects. Of course if you make only one placemat.

If you are planning to make more please remember to multiply quantities of yarns needed.

The project is using intarsia technic which may not be the choice for a beginner, but, in fact, the design is simple enough to be used by a confident beginner.
It is a great project to start working with intarsia- quick to knit, simple but striking design, so the result is very satisfying. Although the project is so small, you will create a finished and practical product! Win-win :) For this project you only need to know:

1. knit stitches (K)
2. purl stitches (P)
3. cast on
4. cast off (bind off)

This is a digital PDF pattern, an instant download pattern.

The size of a finished placemat is 34x24 cm 13.5x9.5 inch, but with slightly different yarns then used for this sample, and different knitting tension, you may get a slightly different result.

Deramores Studio Chunky Acrylic was used to create this pattern.
Although on the Deramores website 9mm needles are recommended for this yarn, 8mm needles give much stronger and less likely to stretch final product, which is preferable for placemat, as they get a lot of wear].
You may choose other suggested yarns, as they have similar gauge to Deramores. Or just use your favourite yarn.

To finish the project off you will also need: a tapestry needle or a crochet hook to help with loose yarn ends and scissors.

The PDF pattern booklet has the colour chart for the placemat as well, as additional tips and pictures, helping you to finish this project.

For Chocolate Heart you will need:

1 x CRM cream Deramores - Pearl
1 x DBR dark brown Deramores - cocoa

More details about yarn usage included in the booklet.

Thank you for visiting.
Happy knitting, crafting, creating…
Kasia