Heart Crochet Coaster [Free Crochet Pattern]

Perfect gift idea for Valentine’s Day! Put a little love on the table and to the drink! Get the free heart crochet coaster pattern below or you can purchase ad-free, printable PDF on my Etsy, Lovecrafts, or Ravelry!

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As January is ending today, I’m very excited for next month! There’s no major holiday in February, but it’s special month for me because my birthday is coming up! (Actually there are SO many birthdays next month…my sister, bunch of my close friends, as well as favorite baby Ellie! I share my birthday with her!) Birthdays are special, but I’m sure for couples, Valentine’s Day is special for them!

circular crochet coaster with heart in the middle

It’s very typical to use heart shape/design for Valentine’s goodies, but it turned out super cute! It’s very simple look, and it brings touch of love to your table.

The coaster size is big enough to put 16oz. mug as well! I don’t drink wine or any alcohol so I don’t own any wine glass and take a picture with the coaster…I know it would be adorable to put your wine glass on top of this coaster and show some love!

I used Lily Sugar ‘n Cream for this project, but worsted weight yarn would work as well. I like using cotton yarn over acrylic for coasters because I use them during the summer for cold drinks. Cotton does help suck up water drops on the cup, and my table surface doesn’t get wet!

When doing tapestry design, especially when using 2 contrasting colors, color that you carry over is going to show a little bit no matter what. So in order to cover that up little bit, I decided to use surface stitch technique. It took me couple tries to get the design I liked. I recommend using a color of the heart, surface stitch in between color A and color B. Fun surface stitch videos as well as tutorial video can be found on Repeat Crafter Me YouTube channel!

Also, I learned and used new technique. Check out the below photo for the difference…

Can you tell the difference? Right side is joined with slip stitch, a typical way of joining each round (and carried over the other color for less weaving). Left side is joined by using invisible join technique. (Tutorial on invisible join can be found HERE) This technique gives so much cleaner look than typical slip stitch joining! Down side to this technique is more weaving. I guess if the project requires multiple colors, then this technique would be perfect, but since this coaster only needs 2 colors and color changes 1 round after next, I would rather carry over the yarn and not fastening off each round…Maybe I can both use this technique and carry over yarn if I know how much more yarn I need for next round. Leave a very long long tail so I can invisible join then carry over yarn!

I hope you enjoy this project! Here’s free pattern for Heart Crochet Coaster! (You can purchase nicely formatted PDF at my Etsy shop HERE !)

Materials:

2 colors (1 ball each) of Lily Sugar ‘n Cream Original (photos shown: White and Red)
US 7/4.5mm crochet hook
Tapestry needle
Stitch marker (optional)

Notes:

Size – about 4.75″ (12cm) diameter
Number in [ ] indicates number of stitches in each round.
You’re going to work in joined round.
- For cleaner look, I highly recommend using invisible join technique for Round 7 through 10. Tutorial can be found HERE
For Round 2 to 5, you will be switching colors back and forth. It will be indicated as color “A” and color “B” then required number of those colors come after.
- For example, there are 12 stitches in Round 2. Start off with 6 stitches of color A, then 1 stitch of color B comes after. Then back to color A with 5 stitches. This will be indicated as (A6 B1 A5)

Abbreviations:

CH – chain stitch
SC – single crochet
SL ST – slip stitch

Instructions:

Round 1 – With color A, SC 6 in magic ring. SL ST to 1st SC. [6]

Round 2 – CH 1. 2 SC in each SC. SL ST to 1st SC. (A6 B1 A5) [12]

Round 3 – CH 1. (SC. 2 SC in next SC)*. Repeat * 5 times. SL ST to 1st SC. (A8 B3 A7) [18]

Round 4 – CH 1. (2 SC in next SC. SC 2)*. Repeat * 5 times. SL ST to 1st SC. (A10 B6 A8) [24]

Round 5 – CH 1. (SC 3. 2 SC in next SC)*. Repeat * 5 times. SL ST to 1st SC. (A1 B5 A5 B10 A5 B4) [30]

Round 6 – With color B, CH 1. SC 2. (2 SC in next SC. SC 4)*. Repeat * 4 times. 2 SC in next SC. SC 2. SL ST to 1st SC. [36]

Round 7 – CH 1. (2 SC in next SC. SC 5)*. Repeat * 5 times. Invisible join. [42]

Round 8 – With color A, CH 1. SC 3. 2 SC in next SC. (SC 6. 2 SC in next SC)*. Repeat * 4 times. SC 3. Invisible join. [48]

Round 9 – With color B, CH 1. (SC 7. 2 SC in next SC)*. Repeat * 5 times. Invisible join. [54]

Round 10 – With color A, CH 1. SC 4. 2 SC in next SC. (SC 8. 2 SC in next SC)*. Repeat * 5 times. SC 4. Invisible join. [60]

Surface stitch the heart and weave in ends.

I’m going to be selling these coasters as well as other coasters I made while back on my Etsy shop soon!

Please let me know if you have any question with the pattern!

Thank you for reading and happy crocheting!

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