It’s hard to be a crochet blogger today without admitting that you admire (and are even inspired by) Twinkie Chan’s food themed crochet projects. Seriously, Twinkie’s crochet is amazing and I often drooled over her tasty treats before I learned to crochet myself. But at that price?! Surely I could make one myself?! …and so I did – using the Yummy Cupcake pattern from YouCanMakeThis.com. The pattern is by Sweet Crochet Designs which offers some great Twinkie Chan tributes as well as some fab and unique food-themed designs.

I found a delicious coconut-looking yarn that I hoped would work really well as frosting and a beautiful chocolate coloured wool for the actual cake. Unfortunately the coconut yarn was too difficult to crochet with – I couldn’t see my stitches!! But my granny donated this lovely marshmallow-style yarn which works perfectly. I modified the pattern a little and used a 5mm hook to make cupcake brooches:

I blocked the brooches with my steam iron and used a strong craft glue to attach a cupcake-shaped felt backing to the crochet which holds the brooch pin perfectly in place. I love this blue felt with white polka dots – it’s from Hobbycraft (as are the brooch pins).

Next I decided to venture into making a scarf; the brooches had taken about 30 minutes each to make, I figured a scarf would take me about a week:

Well…  I was wrong! This has taken me sooooo long to finish. I did this pattern with a 5mm hook, which is small for what the pattern recommends but anything bigger was too hole-y; this did mean that I had to make quite a few more cupcakes than the pattern suggests. I did crochet each cupcake to the previous one which saved time on sewing together, but still I had to sew in the ends, sew on the cherries, etc. (this is the bit that I dread the most!). It does look absolutely delicious though. I’m very happy with the result