People kept pushing to say that I could easily sell my amigurumi and a friend of mine, faaaaaaar away in another state, actually has a flea market booth. So I decided to spend some time making a bunch of little cupcakes. Because we didn't know how well they would sell, and because safety eyes can get expensive when you need a lot of them, I made the cupcakes all faceless. Here's the resulting army...
Yarn used:
Caron Simply Soft Brites, Grape, Limelight, Watermelon, Berry Blue and Blue Mint.
Caron Simply Soft Tweet, White.
Pattern from
Kelli Ronci's Kid's Crochet.
Cupcake army was completed in April of 2009. (As of October '09, however, none of them have actually sold.)
In the library I work at, we have a lot of crochet books, but not a lot with amigurumi patterns in them (well, we do now, but we didn't when I started making them)
. One book we have in the kid's section is called Kid's Crochet, by Kelli Ronci, with patterns for pillows, scarves and things -- but also a couple dolls and cute little cupcakes! The cupcake pattern was actually intended to be a pincushion, but I just made them for decoration. The pattern had little bead sprinkles and maybe a cherry on top, but I just put eyes on and left it at that!
The purple one was for my mom and the green one was for one of my friends.
I was experimenting with textures when I made these guys. The green one's frosting was in my, at this point, standard texture. I made the purple one second, and decided to turn it inside out to use this neat swirly pattern that looked very frosting-like look to them. Every other cupcake after that was made with the swirly frosting texture.
The other thing I really like about these little guys was the yarn used for the cupcake portion of them. The moment I saw it in the store, I was like, "Oh man! This is totally like funfetti cake mix!" I had to buy it and make a cupcake out of it. So I did. ^_^
Yarn:
Caron Simply Soft Brites - Limelight
Caron Simply Soft Brites - Grape
Caron Simply Soft Tweed - White
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