Merry Heart is knit bottom up in one piece. The ribbed border on the heart is pushed around by increases and decreases, including:

Assia Brill’s T-increase and p T-increase.
My new Knit Bowl increase and Rib Bowl increase that mirror the multiple slipped stitch decrease.
All four of the lifted increase family. I filmed a video about working lifted increases on top of lifted increases without puckering the rows.
(k1, yo k1) in one stitch.
The usual k2tog, ssk, p2tog ssp and their triple stitch kin.

This cloth totally needs blocking, it doesn’t look square on the needles and the heart balloons out.

The gauge will be a bit smaller, and the cloth a little larger in worsted than in DK yarn, but one skein of each will yield a cloth.

This pattern is a triple pun: is is decorated with a heart, it’s published on Valentine’s Day, and it’s to benefit the new
cardio/thoracic unit at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya. I was listening to Dr White speak in my church about the new unit on Valentine’s weekend two years ago, and thought of this pattern. My Mom suggested that I name it, and the other patterns in this series, after hearts in the Bible, so this one is Merry Heart after Proverbs 17:22, “A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.” (New King James Version).

For each washcloth pattern sold, I will donate $3.00 for equipment for the building, Account #35270