This collar is designed with eyelets in the front so you can wear it with your favorite ribbon or brooch to lock it. The beads accentuate the heart shape, but they can be omitted if you prefer.

You work the hearts one at a time and attach them to each other as you go. When you have a line of hearts, you crochet around them all, and finish off by working back and forth at the neckline.

The pattern is written for eight hearts, but you can easily adjust the length by adding or removing a heart.

Finished measurements
21 inches/53.5 cm wide across the neckline as shown, adjustable
4 inches/10 cm deep from neckline to tip of heart

Materials

• 220 yards, about 40g of yarn 5/2 (light fingering weight, 22 WPI, 100% cotton)
• 1.5 mm crochet hook
• tapestry needle
• 488 beads, 9/0 (0.27mm) seed beads

Gauge
One heart motif, not including the edging: 2 inches (5 cm) wide and 2 inches (5 cm) deep