craftlog

Nothing like crocheting a cupcake to cheer you up on a seemingly endless coast-to-coast flight. For easy passage through security, as well as for their additional cheering properties, I highly recommend these plastic hooks. I used random yarns my sister gave me for Christmas.

I found two main patterns for crocheted cupcakes, one on craftster by this gal. There’s a nice thread started by comfits with some modifications to it. I especially like her icing.

The other is a pincushion. It’s bigger than the craftster one. So far I’ve made the little guy, and the bottom part of the big one. I’m not sure what yarn I want to use for the icing on the bigger one yet. The cute squiggly yarn i used for the icing on the little one is really hard to crochet with. I couldn’t find the stitches At All, so I just randomly single crocheted around and about until it looked like the right size and shape. Actually, I like it better than my previous attempt following the pattern with the pink yarn. I think there are too many stitches in the frosting pattern, making it all flare out, instead of cup around the bottom, if that makes any sense. I bet that’s one reason why crochet is less trendy than knitting; you can’t using the fancier yarns. Oh well.

For both patterns you need to do double crochets around the post. I’d never done that before, so I watched the movies on stitchguide a few times. They’re not hard stitches, and they’re how you make the nice corner turn and the ribbing. I’d always wondered how people made corners.

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