Crochet Heart Shaped Storage Baskets

If you are like me, you can never have enough storage for bits and bobs. But why have boring old round baskets when you can a have cute crochet heart basket to brighten up your space.

T-shirt yarn heart shaped baskets crochet pattern

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This easy crochet basket pattern work up quickly with t-shirt yarn, and make a great gift for yourself or a special friend.

Fill up your heart basket with sweet treats for Valentine’s Day and then keep the basket as an attractive and practical storage solution.

I like to store small craft tools and supplies in mine.

2 crochet heart baskets made from tshirt yarn

This crochet basket pattern is suited to an advanced beginner or intermediate crocheter.

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Let’s make a Crochet Heart Basket

You will need:

zpagetti tshirt yarn pink and red and 12mm bamboo crochet hook


Stitches used:

US terminology (for UK terminology conversion please refer to this chart)
I’ve linked to instructions for every stitch as a reference.
Chain stitch – ch
slip stitch – sl
double crochet – dc
treble crochet – tr
single crochet – sc

These pictures may also help you

How to make a Single Crochet stitch with t-shirt Yarn

Here is how to do a single crochet stitch in both step by step and video form.
how to do single crochet double crochet

  1. Here is the place you will insert the hook.
  2. Insert the hook in the next stitch.
  3. Pull through your yarn (also called yarn over)
  4. You should have 2 loops on your hook now.
  5. Yarn over again
  6. Pull through both loops and your are done.

Watch the video to see how it all works (I was holding the camera with my chin so please forgive any blurry bits)

How to make a Double Crochet stitch with t-shirt Yarn

Double crochet step by step pictures

  1. Yarn Over (wrap yarn around the hook).
  2. Insert hook into stitch and yarn over again, pull the loop though.
  3. You should have 3 loops on your hook now.
  4. Yarn over again and pull yarn through 2 loops, you should now have 2 loops.
  5. Yarn over and pull through both loops and your are done.

How to make a crochet heart basket:

Start by making the base heart shape, I’ve used this crochet heart motif pattern designed by Andee Graves.

It’s a copyright so I can’t republish it here, but I like that Andee has included both the written pattern and a chart which really helps clarify the shape.

Because t-shirt yarn is super chunky, not all crochet heart patterns will translate well. I actually tried about 9 or 10 heart patterns and found that this one worked the best with the t-shirt yarn.

I won’t republish the pattern here but have taken some photos of the important stages for how to crochet a heart. It’s helpful to look at the steps you out if you are inexperienced at reading patterns.

You’ll find that it’s actually quite an easy crochet heart to make, once you get the hang of it.

heart crochet basket base first round

1. Work all your dc stitches into here – last stitch of chain.

2. The stitch will get really big, you can tighten it later.

3. To finish first round, slip stitch into here.

4. First round done.

Heart shaped crochet basket base second round

5. Treble stitches all go here.
Hint: Treble Crochet is similar to double crochet but yarn over twice in the first step.

6. You have the first bump on your heart.

7. Work your dc to create half your heart.

8. Chain one here.

Crochet heart instuctions

Making the tip of the heart.
I found this bit a bit tricky, I hope it’s clear with the photos.

A. Before chain one.

B. Chain one then insert hook here.

C. Slip stitch and pull yarn through

D. You have the little point on your heart

Heart crochet base basket

9. Continue making the other half of the heart shape

10. To close heart shape slip stitch into here.

11. Your base is complete.

12. Chain one then sc (single crochet into every stitch) to start building up sides of basket.

Top tip: Make different shaped crochet baskets by using different shaped bases. Square, round, oval or hexi all work great, just sc with no increases and the wall of your baskets will start to build up.

To make the sides of this heart basket you will need 3 rounds of sc. Any more and you start to lose the heart shape.

crochet sides of basket with zpagetti yarn

13 & 14. This is the first round of sc, see how the sides are starting to curve up.

15. After 3 rounds of sc.

16. Slip stitch and weave in end.

red heart basket with thread - storage solution for bits and pieces

All done!

These crochet heart baskets are really fun to make and don’t use much yarn. You can make several baskets with one cone of t-shirt yarn.

What will you store in your sweet crochet heart baskets?

If you liked these baskets, you may enjoy making a set of Crochet Nesting Baskets

 

crochet heart shaped storage baskets made with zpagetti tshirt yarn

This post was originally written and published Feb 2014 – Updated and republished Feb 2021

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