How to Crochet a Cupcake
This crochet cupcake works great for holding sewing supplies like pins and needles. It also makes a cute gift and decoration for someone’s birthday!
About this Pattern
This crochet cupcake is a cute item to make. I find it very useful too, as I use it as a cushion for my sewing pins and needles. This pattern works up fast and easy and definitely make great gifts.
You construct the base or the bottom of the cupcake first. You’ll make a series of double crochet stitches in the round. Then we’ll switch over the back post double crochet (bpdc) as well as front post double crochet (fpdc). Right along the top edge we’ll make back post single crochet (bpsc).
Crochet post stitches add wonderful textures to items. They aren’t difficult to do, especially when you remember to work around the stitch from the previous row or round, as opposed to under the two loops from the top of the stitch. With back post stitches, you are pushing the previous stitch “back,” while front post stitches push the stitch to the “front” with your hook.
The top icing section is nice and easy, as it consists of single crochet stitches made in spiral rounds. Spiral rounds do not use chain 1s or slip stitches. Instead, you just keep working single crochet stitches on top of each other in a spiral. The advantage of spiral crochet is you don’t have a visible line showing where the stitches have been joined.
Materials Used
I’m using about 125 yards of worsted weight yarn and a size G 4 mm crochet hook. I’m also using polyester fiber stuffing for the inside of the cupcake. For the decorations on top, I sewed on a pom pom. The little sprinkles are created by sticking my sewing pins into the top section.
Feel free to also keep one of these next to you when you are weaving in ends, as top of the cupcake part holds yarn needles nicely as well.
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