This guide takes you through the steps to crochet a delightful mini heart cake, an ideal Valentine's Day gift. Perfect for beginners or those with a bit more experience, this tutorial promises a fun and satisfying project.
Crochet Mini Heart Cake
Materials:
- Main yarn color for the cake (light pink in the tutorial)
- Yarn for the cream and piping (a different color if desired)
- Stuffing
- 3.5 mm hook
- 2 mm hook
- Scissors
- Beads for decoration
- Glue
- Optional: Key ring or chain for a keychain
Abbreviations:
- SC: Single crochet
- DC: Double crochet
- HDC: Half double crochet
- TC: Triple crochet
- Ch: Chain
- St: Stitch
- Sl St: Slip stitch
Instructions:
Making the Cake Body:
Create a magic ring with your main yarn color.
- Ch 3 and TC 3 into the magic ring.
- DC 4 into the magic ring.
- TC 3 to form the point of the heart.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 on the other side of the heart.
- Ch 3 and Sl St into the magic ring to close the heart.
- Ch 1 and SC in the back loops all the way around. Repeat this for two more rounds.
- Ch 1 and fasten off to complete the bottom of the cake.
Making the Cake Top:
- Repeat steps 1-8 for the top of the cake, but stop after the second round.
- Leave a long tail for sewing.
Assembling the Cake:
- Align the bottom and top of the cake, with the points matching.
- Insert your needle into the middle of the bottom and top, and sew the two pieces together, leaving a small gap for stuffing.
- Stuff the cake with just enough stuffing to create a nice shape.
- Sew up the remaining gap and fasten off.
Making the Cream:
- Insert your hook into the middle of the top of the cake and make a slip knot.
- Ch 4.
- DC cluster 3 times into the first chain.
- Skip 2 stitches and Sl St into the third stitch.
- Repeat steps 2-4 all the way around until you reach the beginning.
- Ch 1 and fasten off.
- Repeat for the bottom of the cake.
Making the Piping:
- Switch to your 2 mm hook and the same yarn as the cream.
- Make a slip knot and insert your hook somewhere on the top of the cake.
- Ch 13.
- Sl St the chain onto the cake, shaping it as desired.
- Repeat this all the way around the cake.
Decorating:
- Add beads or other decorations to the cake and piping.
- Attach a chain or key ring if desired.
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