Classic Crochet Cupcake

The third and final cupcake for this week is a Classic Crochet Cupcake. It’s cute, it’s fun, and I’ve even designed it so you can take it in and out of the cupcake liner! Now you can make and mix and match cupcake “flavors” and liner colors to your heart’s content! We all know that the designing and decorating of the cupcakes is the best part, and this opens up the possibilities even more! Remember to use what you’ve learned from the Rosette Swirl Crochet Cupcake Pattern and the Whip It Up On Top Crochet Cupcake Pattern to add even more variety to your creations! And if you’re still wanting more options comment below and I’ll work on whipping up a few more ideas for you to play with!

This week I’ve shared with you my personal secret preferences on cupcakes. You learned that I love the look of and decorations on cupcakes, but am not a fan of eating them, and you learned that if I am going to eat a cupcake that I’m likely going to scrape all the icing off of it. What is today’s secret you might be wondering? Well, I’ve had cake and cupcakes on the brain quite a bit the last little while, while I’ve been having so much fun making up these cupcake patterns, that I’ve had some time to think about this. What cake would I choose if I had to choose just one? Drumroll………I’ve decided that it would have to be Strawberry Shortcake! Makes sense, right? It’s pretty much a naked cake (which I like), covered in a ton of fresh fruit (which I love), and maybe some whipped cream (which I’m totally cool with)! Strawberry Shortcake it is then! How about you? What kind of cake/cupcake would you choose?

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Difficulty

Intermediate

Materials

• Crochet Hook, Size E/4 (3.5 mm) 
• Stitch Marker(s)
• Scissors
• Stuffing
• Tapestry Needle
• Yarnspirations Caron Simply Soft (worsted 4-Medium, 100% acrylic, Approx 315 yds/288 m, 6 oz/170 g), Color (A) Pagoda, less than 1 skein, Color (B) Off White , less than 1 skein, Color (C) Sunshine, less than 1 skein, Color (D) Pistachio, less than 1 skein

Gauge

Gauge is not essential to this project, but tension should be maintained.

Finished Measurements

Using hook size E/4 (3.5 mm) approximately 3 inches (8 cm) tall and is approximately 9.5 inches (24 cm) in circumference at its widest point.

Design Notes

• This pattern is written using US crochet terminology. I choose to use a size E crochet hook. That said, the ultimate desired result is to achieve a tight crochet fabric that when stuffed will not allow the stuffing show through. If a different sized hook works better for you, then by all means, use it! Do note, however, that if you change the hook size or the type of yarn you are using, that this will have an effect on the size and look of your finished item.
• This pattern is written in rounds. Some of them will be created in a spiral, others will be joined. I will let you know in the pattern which you should be doing.
• It will be helpful to place a stitch marker at the beginning stitch of the round and to move it up as you start each additional round.
• At the end of each round I will note in parenthesis how many stitches you should have in that row once completed.
• As I was writing up this post I decided that I needed more pictures, so don’t be alarmed when you begin to see different colors on the cupcake! I worked up another identical cupcake to take more pictures but used different colors. Curious what these other pictured colors are? Caron Simply Soft in Chocolate, Persimmon, and Lt Country Peach. Enjoy!

Abbreviations/Stitches Used

• BLO – back loop only
• bo – bobble
• ch – Chain
• Crab Stitch (described below)
• FLO – front loop only
• Fpdc – front post double crochet
• Rnd(s) – Round(s)
• sc – Single crochet
• sc2tog – Single crochet 2 stitches together
• sl st – Slip stitch
• st(s) – Stitch(s)
• [ ] – Work instructions between brackets as many times as directed
• magic circle/adjustable ring

Special Stitches

Crab Stitch: The crab stitch is created just like single crochet stitches, except you work the stitch to the right of your hook instead of the stitch to the left. Essentially you are working backwards on your row. You will start the row by chaining one and then insert the hook into the stitch to the right, pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through both loops on the hook. It may take several stitches before you can truly see what the stitch looks like and how cool it is. This is a fun stitch to have in your arsenal for easy, decorative borders.

Bobble (bo): I used a 5dc bobble in this pattern. Essentially it’s 5 half finished double crochets all in the same stitch that are joined at the end as one stitch. And because that is all sorts of confusing, here are some directions! You create the bobble as follows:

With the original single loop on your hook from your previous stitch(es)

1. Yarn over, insert your hook into the next stitch
2. Yarn over and pull up a loop (three loops on the hook)
3. Yarn over and pull through two of the loops
4. Stop here! (two loops on your hook). If you were doing a full double crochet you would yarn over again and pull it through the final two loops to finish the dc, but with a bobble you stop half way, leaving the extra loop on the hook. One of the five legs completed.

Ok, now repeat steps 1-4, four more times, inserting the hook into the same stitch that you just worked into. Also remember that each time you repeat the sequence that you should have one more loop added to your hook.
Now, yarn over and pull through all six of the loops on your hook. This closes your bobble stitch. Congratulations, you just made a bobble!

>Design Note: When making bobbles some patterns will have you make a chain after you have made the bobble to secure them even more. I DO NOT have you make this chain in the pattern, simply make your sc in the next stitch followed by a bobble and so on as the pattern directs.

Let’s Make Our Cupcake!

Cupcake Liner

Using Color (A)

Work in rounds until noted to switch and join at the end of each the row.

• Rnd 1: 6sc in adjustable (magic) circle (6sts)
• Rnd 1 alternative: If you don’t know how to/do not like using an adjustable circle you can ch2 and then 6sc in 2^nd chain from hook (6sts)
• Rnd 2: 2sc in each st around (12sts)
• Rnd 3: [Sc in the next sc, 2sc in next st] 6 times (18sts)
• Rnd 4: [Sc in the next 2sc, 2sc in the next sc] 6 times (24sts)
• Rnd 5: [Sc in the next 3sc, 2sc in the next sc] 6 times (30sts)
• Rnd 6: [Sc in the next 4sc, 2sc in the next sc] 6 times (36sts)
• Rnd 7: [Sc in BLO] 36 times, sl st to the 1st sc (36sts)

>Design Note: We will now start to make the outer wall of our cupcake liner. We want it to be straight so we are going to stop working in a spiral and join at the end of each row and chain 1 at the beginning of each row. This chain does not count as a stitch throughout. You DO NOT turn your work at any time.

>Design Option: The pattern to follow will create ridges in your cupcake liner. If you do not want ridges you can replace the Fpdc in the pattern below with sc. Obviously it will change the look of your piece.

• Rnd 8: Ch1, Sc in the same st, Fpdc in the next, [Sc in the next, Fpdc in the next]  17 times, sl st to the 1st sc to join (36sts)
• Rnd 9-13: Repeat round 8. On Round 13, switch to Color (C) on the final loop of the last Fpdc, sl st to the 1st sc to join (36sts for 5 rounds)

• Rnd 14: Ch1, Crab Stitch around (42sts) Fasten off. I use the yarn tail and tapestry needle to nicely connect the end stitch to the first stitch.

Cupcake

Using Color (B)

• Rnd 1: 6sc in adjustable (magic) circle (6sts)
• Rnd 1 alternative: If you don’t know how to/do not like using an adjustable circle you can ch2 and then 6sc in 2^nd chain from hook (6sts)
• Rnd 2: 2sc in each st around (12sts)
• Rnd 3: [Sc in the next sc, 2sc in next st] 6 times (18sts)
• Rnd 4: [Sc in the next 2sc, 2sc in the next sc] 6 times (24sts)
• Rnd 5: [Sc in the next 3sc, 2sc in the next sc] 6 times (30sts)
• Rnd 6: [Sc in the next 4sc, 2sc in the next sc] 6 times (36sts)

• Rnd 7: [Sc in BLO] 36 times, sl st to the 1st sc (36sts)
• Rnd 8-17: Sc in each st around (36sts for 10 rows)

• Rnd 18: Working in FLO for this round: [sc, bo] 18 times, sl st to the first row and Fasten off (36sts)
• Rnd 19: Working in BLO from Rnd 18 for this round: Fasten on with a sc and sc in each st around (36sts)
• Rnd 20: Sc in each st around (36sts)

At any time now begin stuffing and shaping your cupcake and continue to do so up until right before you close up the hole.

• Rnd 21:  [Sc in the next 4sc, sc2tog] 6 times (30sts)
• Rnd 22:  Sc in each stitch around (30sts)
• Rnd 23:  [Sc in the next 3sc, sc2tog] 6 times (24sts)
• Rnd 24:  [Sc in the next 2sc, sc2tog] 6 times (18sts)
• Rnd 25:  [Sc in the next sc, sc2tog] 6 times (12sts)
• Rnd 26: [Sc in the next sc, sc2tog] 4 times (8sts)
• Sl st to the first st, fasten off. Leave a tail to sew up the hole.

Embellish

To embellish I took long strands of Color (C) and Color (D) and made randomly scattered stitches placed all over the top.

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Need more cupcakes in your life?

Check out the Rosette Swirl Crochet Cupcake and the Whip It Up On Top Crochet Cupcake!

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