Heart Design Crochet Crop Top Step By Step Tutorial

If you're looking to create a trendy, fun, and customizable piece for your wardrobe, this crochet heart crop top pattern is perfect for you! The design features adorable heart clusters, ribbed edges, and easy-to-follow steps that even beginners can master.

Crochet Crop Top

Whether you're preparing for a warm summer day or a night out, this top is a versatile piece that can be styled with anything. Plus, you can customize the colors to fit your personality or even experiment with different yarn textures. With detailed instructions and clear explanations, you'll have this stylish heart-themed top ready in no time!

Ribbing at the Bottom

Start with a slip knot and chain six.
Work in slip stitches into the second stitch from the hook until the end of the row.
For the next row, chain one and continue doing slip stitches in the back loop only.
Repeat until the ribbing reaches the desired length to fit around your waist.

Connecting the Ribbing

Connect the two ends of the ribbing by going into the back loop on one side and into each stitch on the other side, making slip stitches to join them.

Main Top Part - Row 1 (Double Crochets)

Chain two and turn your work.
Do double crochets all around the row.
Connect both sides with a slip stitch at the end of the row.

In Main Top Part - Row 2 (Single Crochets)

Chain one and turn your work.
Do single crochets all around.
At the end, change to your second color yarn by pulling it through when making the slip stitch to connect the row.

Main Top Part - Row 3 (Heart Clusters)

Chain two and turn your work.
First Cluster: Do a double crochet cluster in the same stitch (yarn over, go into the stitch, pull through, pull through two, repeat once, then pull through all three loops).
Chain two.

Bubble Stitch Heart: Skip five stitches, then in the sixth stitch, make a bubble stitch (three unfinished double crochets, then pull through all four loops on the hook).

Chain two.
Make another bubble stitch into the same stitch.
Chain two.
Repeat the pattern of skipping five stitches, then making two bubble stitches with two chains in between until the end of the row.
Skip five stitches and make a second cluster in the same stitch.
Chain two and connect with a slip stitch, changing back to your main color yarn.

In Main Top Part - Row 4 (Filling in Hearts)

Chain one and turn your work.
Do a single crochet in the first stitch.
Chain two.
Skip the first and last stitch next to the hearts. Do three half double crochets in the three skipped stitches from the previous row.
Chain two.
Do a single crochet in the middle of the heart cluster.
Chain two.
Repeat the pattern: three half double crochets in the gap, chain two, single crochet in the middle of the heart, chain two.
At the end, chain two for the cluster and connect with a slip stitch to the first single crochet.

Main Top Part - Row 5 (Double Crochets)

Chain two and turn your work.
Do double crochets all around: one in the first stitch, three in each of the three stitches from the previous row, one in the gap, and one in the single crochet.
Connect with a slip stitch at the end of the row.

Main Top Part - Row 6 (Single Crochets)

Chain one.
Do single crochets all around.
At the end, connect with a slip stitch, changing back to your second color yarn.

Repeating the Pattern

Continue repeating the pattern from Row 3 until you reach the desired length for your top.

Adding Straps and Edging

Mark the desired places for your neckline and straps with stitch markers.
Create ribbing for the straps and top edge the same way as the bottom ribbing (chain six, slip stitches in back loop only).
Make two longer straps and two shorter straps.
Attach the shorter straps to the middle front and back.
Sew the longer straps starting from the armpit area, connecting them to the front and back of the top.
Sew all straps and edges securely.