Make these beautiful crochet Gingerbread Heart ornaments to decorate your home and Christmas tree or give them to friends and family! If you like to decorate your home during the Holidays, you can use these crochet Gingerbread hearts to make beautiful Christmas garland!
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Now that Halloween is past, many of us now begin thinking about the upcoming holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. These are special times for many families and are a perfect time for making the home cozy and decorative in the spirit of the holiday season.
Last year, I designed Christmas Hearts and made a bunch of them for our Christmas tree and for my son’s school teachers. This year I decided to adapt the pattern for the Christmas hearts and to make crochet Gingerbread Heart ornaments. Make sure to check out my other holiday heart patterns – Valentine’s Day Hearts and Halloween Hearts!
Gingerbread Hearts, or Lebkuchenherzen, are popular in German celebrations, especially during Christmas time. They are typically decorated with intricate icing designs or have some saying in the center.
To make my crochet Gingerbread Hearts more realistic, I embroidered them to imitate the icing and embellished them with beads and small snowflake buttons. I am very happy with how they turned out! This Gingerbread Heart is also part of my crochet Christmas ornament collection.
Crochet Gingerbread Heart Ornaments – Free Crochet Pattern
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Abbreviations:
(See a list of crochet abbreviations used in patterns by yarn industry designers and publishers HERE)
Ch – chain
DC – double crochet
HDC – half double crochet
Rnd – round
SC- single crochet
Sl St – slip stitch
St (Sts) – stitch (stitches)
TR – treble crochet
Finished Size:
Gingerbread Heart is about 3″ (7 – 1/2 cm).
Yarn:
Red Heart Soft, medium weight #4 yarn, color – Toast
Red Heart Soft, medium weight #4 yarn, color – White
Hook and other materials:
US size h/8 (5 mm) crochet hook
Beads of your choice
Buttons
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Instructions
I made two types of crochet Gingerbread Hearts – with white edging and with brown edging.
Heart with White Edging
With brown color – Ch 4,
Rnd 1. Make all of the next stitches into the fourth Ch from hook (the first Ch made) working under both loops – 3 DC, 3 HDC, Ch 1, DC (Heart point), Ch 1, 3 HDC, 3 DC, Ch 3, Sl St.
Rnd 2. Ch 3, in top of first St of previous Row make HDC and DC, 3 TR in next St, 2 DC in next St, HDC into each of next 3 Sts, HDC in Ch-1 St, Ch 1, DC in next St (Heart point), Ch 1, HDC in Ch-1 St, HDC into each of next 3 Sts, 2 DC in next St, 3 TR in next St, DC and HDC in next St, Ch 3, Sl St in center.
Rnd 3. Ch 3, SC in top of first St of previous round, 2 SC in each of next 4 Sts, then SC in each of the next 6 Sts, SC in Ch-1 stitch, Ch 1, DC in next St (Heart point), Ch 1, SC in Ch-1 stitch, SC in each of the next 6 Sts, 2 SC in each of next 4 Sts, SC in next St, Ch 3, Sl St in center, cut the yarn leaving about 5” tail, draw tail through the loop and pull tight.
Rnd 4. Decorative edge. Join white color into last Sl St of previous Rnd, Ch 1, Sl St in 2nd Ch of Ch 3 at the beginning of previous Rnd, Ch 1, Sl St in next Ch, *Ch 1, Sl St in next St, repeat from * around to Ch 3, Ch 1, Sl St in 1st Ch of Ch 3 at the end of previous Rnd, Ch 1, Sl St in next Ch, Ch 1, Sl St into same place where you joined white color.
Finishing: fasten off and weave in all ends except two in different colors to make a loop for hanging the heart on the tree.
Heart with Brown Edging
With brown color – Ch 4,
Rnd 1, 2 – Follow the Instructions above. Drop brown yarn, do not cut it off.
Rnd 3. Join white color into last Sl St of previous Rnd, Ch 3, SC in top of first St of previous round, 2 SC in each of next 4 Sts, then SC in each of the next 6 Sts, SC in Ch-1 stitch, Ch 1, DC in next St (Heart point), Ch 1, SC in Ch-1 stitch, SC in each of the next 6 Sts, 2 SC in each of next 4 Sts, SC in next St, Ch 3, Sl St into same place where you joined white color. Cut the yarn leaving about 5” tail, draw tail through the loop and pull tight.
Rnd 4. Pick up brown color from Rnd 2 and draw it through last Sl St of previous Rnd, Ch 1, Sl St in 2nd Ch of Ch 3 at the beginning of previous Rnd, Ch 1, Sl St in next Ch, *Ch 1, Sl St in next St, repeat from * around to Ch 3, Ch 1, Sl St in 1st Ch of Ch 3 at the end of previous Rnd, Ch 1, Sl St in next Ch, Ch 1, Sl St into same place where you joined brown color.
Finishing: fasten off and weave in all ends except two in different colors to make a loop for hanging the heart on the tree.
Embroider your crochet Gingerbread Hearts and embellish with beads and snowflake buttons.
I hope you enjoyed these crochet Gingerbread Heart ornaments!
With Love,
Merry Christmas!
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Do you chain 4 to start?
Yes, start with Ch 4.
Que monada los corazones y el muñeco de jenjibre gracias por ello
estoy de acuerdo. ¡muy bonito!
This is so beautiful thank you for sharing . Will be making a whole lot of this to give out as gifts
I really like these. Thank you fo sharingthis free pattern
I want to make those for our christmas tree! Looks so cute 🙂
I love these!!! Would you consider making a video tutorial?
Perfectly cute !!!!!
Anna
Thank you!
Thank you for this pattern! Happy holidays!
You are very welcome! Happy holidays to you too!
Hello, it’s a lovely pattern. Pls, it’s nit clear to me where to slip stich 3 chain when finishing the first row. I’ve tried different ways but it doesn’t look right.
You need to work Sl St into the same place as all other Sts of this round – fourth Ch from the hook (the first Ch made).
They are beautiful😍😍😍
Thank you so much!