11/13/2022 Pattern: Heartfelt
Click here to download the .pdf directly. Pattern is also available on Ravelry.
Quick Facts: -use any yarn with appropriately sized needles to obtain a comfortably dense gauge -heart is worked in one piece without breaking the yarn and is seamed -heads up: in lightweight yarns, it can be a bit fiddly, especially if you are a tight knitter...an opportunity to practice relaxing your tension :-) -pattern uses short rows to achieve shaping
I first became inspired to create a little stuffed heart when I was in a town of about 500 people. Adam and I had been camping there for about 3 weeks, and I had been visiting the weekly food pantry. Before my last visit there, I wanted to make a little token of my heartfelt appreciation for the ongoing task of running the food pantry.
I didn’t want to just make a heart, I wanted to make a heart that didn’t require breaking the yarn midway through the piece. I noodled around and figured it out in a day. I didn’t write it down because I was sure I wouldn’t forget it. Fast forward a year, and I still hadn’t written down the pattern, but sure enough, I had forgotten it except for a few key points: the beginning, how wide the widest row was, and the overall construction. Armed with some lightweight leftovers and double pointed needles, I set to recreating my little heartfelt token. Over the course of a year, I probably made about 50 hearts or more in a variety of yarn and needle combinations. Those recreation experiments saw me coming to an acceptable shape but then being curious about how it would affect the final piece if I put an increase here instead of there, if I cast on 2 in the middle and added an increase instead of casting on 3 in the middle. There were about 4 sets of instructions I was playing with, all of which made great-looking hearts in the end, but which one was best? Moreover...which sample matched which instructions?! Another spring and part of a summer went by, and my notes laid dormant before I narrowed it down to 2 different variations of the instructions, and now I am finally satisfied and pleased to give you the pattern to create a small token: Heartfelt. I have not tried it, but I would LOVE to see the results if someone makes one from feltable yarn and felts it, truly embodying the pun in the name. Comments are closed.
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