Crochet Heart Square Bedspread and Pillow Sham Pattern

Crochet Heart Square Bedspread and Pillow Sham Pattern

Picture a whole bed wrapped in little cream hearts, each one nestled in a lacy mesh square and framed in soft sage green. This bedspread is built one square at a time, so you can pick it up in tiny pockets of free time and watch it grow into something heirloom-worthy. You'll stitch each square, sew a ridged heart onto the center, join everything into one big blanket, and finish with a ruffled shell edge. Add the two matching pillow shams and your whole bedroom feels calm, pulled together, and a little romantic.

Materials Needed for Crochet Heart Square Bedspread and Pillow Sham Pattern

Assembly Instructions

• Weave in all tails on the squares, hearts, and sham fronts, then wet block each square to approximately 17 cm (6.7 in) and each sham front flat, pinning the Round 3 sides straight so every side measures the same before you join anything.
• Pin a heart to each mesh square with the point facing down: the tip sits on the dc of Row 4 over st 11, the top notch sits at Row 10, and the widest part spans sts 5 through 17. Whip stitch around the whole outer edge with the cream tail, catching the mesh dc posts.
• Lay out the 80 squares 8 across and 10 down, then join them into 10 strips of 8 by working sl st through the BLO of both squares across all 27 sts of each side, from corner center to corner center.
• Join the 10 strips with 9 long seams using the same BLO sl st join, working 216 sl sts per seam and picking up each corner center where four squares meet so the intersections lie flat and close.
• Work the bedspread Round 1 and Round 2 around the entire outer edge, placing a marker in each of the four corner center sts first, and check that you have 214 sc across each end and 268 sc down each side before starting the shells.
• Sew the five hearts to each sham front with the points facing down: the bottom pair has tips on Row 3 over sts 14 and 38, the middle heart has its tip on Row 9 over st 26, and the top pair has tips on Row 15 over sts 14 and 38.
• Pin each finished sham front onto a plain pillow cover and whip stitch it down along the inner edge of the cream Round 3 ridge, keeping the shell edging free so it fans out over the cover.

Important Notes

• 💡Make and block one full square with a heart before buying all your yarn, because 80 squares will multiply any small tension difference into a big size difference.
• 💡Buy all your cream from the same dye lot at once, since the cream is spread across the mesh, hearts, joins, and edging and a slight shade change shows easily next to the green.
• 💡Mark the corner center st of every square in Rounds 1 through 3 with a stitch marker, because the 3 sc corner groups are what keep the squares flat and the joins lined up.
• 💡Keep the heart in BLO the whole way, and work the stitches a little looser than the mesh so the ridges stay soft and the heart sits flat on the mesh.
• 💡Weave in tails as you finish each square, not at the end, since the mesh holds tails well but they are hard to hide once the squares are joined.
• 💡Keep your join tension loose and consistent, because a tight join row pulls the spread short and makes the hearts bunch at the seams.
• 💡Wash the finished cotton spread gently in cool water and lay it flat to dry so the shells keep their fan shape and the squares don't stretch under their own weight.

Every heart you finish is one more little reason to smile, and before you know it a pile of squares turns into a bed you'll want to show off. Take your time, enjoy the easy rhythm of the mesh and the quiet charm of each shell edge, and let this become the piece your guests ask about. Pour a cup of tea, lay out your cream and sage yarn, and start with a single square. The rest follows one happy stitch at a time. 🧶✨🧵