Comfort hearts

• Double knit yarn in pink - it uses approximately 8 grams of yarn for each heart
• Crochet hook 2.5mm
• Polyester fibrefill or small pieces of soft fabric cuttings
• Darning needle

Please drop completed hearts off at Rotherham Hospital's Welcome Desk in the main entrance. The welcome desk is open 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Alternatively, you can post the hearts to:

Karen Shay-Nutt
D Level, Rotherham Hospital
Moorgate Road
Rotherham
S60 2UD

Work in continuous rounds - do not join or turn unless otherwise instructed.

It would be wise to use a stitch marker and place it in the first stitch of each round to mark the beginning of it.

1: Work 6 sc in a magic ring [6]

2: Work 2 sc in each st around [12]

3: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in the next st) rep 6 times [18]

4-5: Sc in each st around

Cut the yarn leaving a short tail for sewing. Make another piece just like the previous one by repeating rounds 1-5. Do not cut the yarn as we will continue using the yarn of the second piece.

6: Crochet the pieces together. Work 9 sc on the second piece, 18 sc around the first piece and again 9sc on the second piece [36]. Sew the hole between the two pieces closed.

7: Sc in each st around

8: (Sc in each of the next 4 sts, sc2tog) rep 6 times [30]

9: Sc in each st around

10: (Sc in each of the next 3 sts, sc2tog) rep 6 times [24]

11: Sc in each st around

12: (Sc in each of the next 2 sts, sc2tog) rep 6 times [18]

13: Sc in each st around

Fill the heart with fibrefill. Add a bit of stuffing after the next rounds as well.

14: (Sc in next st, sc2tog) rep 6 times [12]

15: Sc in each st around

16: (Sc2tog) rep 6 times

Cut the yarn leaving a tail for closing the piece. Weave the threaded needle through the front loops of all remaining stiches and pull tightly to close.

Each set will be made up of two complete hearts.