I made this little guy for the girl who has been teaching a manga drawing class at the local Comic Book store for the last year or so and has been awesome to my kid. She’s passed on some really cool drawing tips, always been friendly and patient with the kids, and that is super duper in my books. She’s going on to another job and won’t be there anymore so we wanted to do something sweet for her.
It was made with half strands of yarn and a 2mm crochet hook. The bottom is worked to be actually flat. I didn’t take good notes as I made it and just winged it, but I put up the pattern as best I recall and have sussed out from looking at the thing. If this is done with a bigger hook and full strands of yarn, it’ll just be bigger, like little pin cushion sized.
2mm hook for half strands of yarn or smaller for crochet cotton.
3.5mm hook for worsted weight yarn.
SC = Single Crochet
INVDEC = Invisible Decrease
INC = Increase (2 SC in one stitch)
CupCake Top
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. SC x 6 (6)
2. INC in each ST (12)
3. SC then INC; repeat around (18)
4. SC x 2 then INC; repeat around (24)
5. SC around (repeat for rounds 6 through 9) (24)
10. SC x 2 then INC x 2; repeat around (36)
11. SL ST x 4 then SC x 3 in each of the next two ST (sort of like and increase but put 3 SC in the ST instead of 2); repeat around (72)
Finish off and weave in the tail
Decorate with French Knots or whatever you like.
CupCake Bottom
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. SC x 6 (6)
2. INC in each ST (12)
3. INC x 6 then SC x 6 (18)
4. SL ST around (to form the flat bottom of the cupcake) (18)
Round 5 is done in the backloop only of round 3, leaving the SL ST line totally untouched, you may need to CH 1 to get to it.
5. SC around (18)
6. repeat round 5 for rounds 6 through 13 (18)
Finish off and keep a long tail for attaching to the cupcake top
Cherry
CH2 or Magic Ring or however you like to start
1. SC x 6 (6)
2. INC in each ST (12)
3. INV DEC x 6 (6)
Finish off and keep a long tail to sew into cupcake frosting.