I love to bake but it never lasts long in my home, here is a few cupcakes that look good enough to eat. I knitted cupcakes for a knitting display I had at my local library. Since then the knitted cupcakes have become a knitted table piece, my friends and family love the knitted cupcakes. I've lost count of how times I have laughed at friends and family who thought they were real until they picked them up to eat.
Disclaimer: I am not an affilate of Suzie John's or her publishing company, Love Knitting, Garden Knits, Book Depository or Amanda Berry at Fluff and Fuzz nor is this a sponsored post. I just love these knitting patterns and I wouldn't recommend it unless I have actually used them and love them. Patterns used are Cupcake fairy cake by Garden knits, Stawberry by Suzie John's, Cherry by Suzie John's, Tenny butterfly by Amanda Berry at Fluff and Fuzz.
[Start of image description for image above: A photo of a plate with a doily and a knitted vanilla cupcake inside a blue cupcake case, it has chocolate icing with a blue butterfly on top . End of image description.]
Project details
Project: Knitted cupcakes for a table piece/display piece
Start date: 20th April 2018
Finish date: 4th May 2018
Pattern used and the designer:
- Cupcake fairy cake by Linda at Garden Knits (Includes the flower)
- Teeny butterfly by Amanda Berry at Fluff and Fuzz.
- Twenty to make knitted fruit By Suzie Johns (Cherry and Stawberry)
Pattern skills needed
- Cast on
- Cast off
- Knit
- Purl
- Knit in the front and back to increase
- Knit two stitches together (K2tog)
- How to pull the yarn through the stitches to cast off
[Start of image description: a photo of six vanilla cupcakes with chocolate icing sitting on a doily on a plate. They are each different, there is a cupcake with lime green case and a lime slice on the top, a peach case with a strawberry, a cupcake with a pink case with a cherry, a peach cupcake case with a strawberry, a cupcake with a lemon case and a slice of lemon on top and a blue case with a blue butterly on top. Underneath is a piece of white ripped grid paper and a sage green rectangle with a white rectangle at the top with the words "Knitting journal" underneath is the words "Knitted cupcakes for a tea party" and at the bottom the words "Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits. blogspot.com". End of image description.]
Materials
Yarn weight: Aran/Worsted weight
Yarn used:
- Cream Aran Yarn (used instead of DK/8Ply yarn)
- Brown DK/8Ply Yarn
- Blue DK/8Ply Yarn
- Lime DK/8 Ply Yarn
- Dark Green DK/8Ply Yarn
- Lemon DK/8Ply Yarn
- Yellow DK/8Ply Yarn
- Red DK/8Ply Yarn
- Green DK/8ply Yarn
- Pink DK/8Ply Yarn
- Purple DK/8Ply Yarn
- Light Brown DK/8Ply Yarn
- Peach DK/8Ply Yarn
Place yarn bought from:
- Cream Aran Yarn - Love crafts
- Brown DK/8Ply Yarn - Market
- Blue DK/8Ply Yarn - The warehouse
- Lime DK/8 Ply Yarn - The warehouse
- Dark Green DK/8Ply Yarn - $2 Shop
- Lemon DK/8Ply Yarn - $2 Shop
- Yellow DK/8Ply Yarn - $2 Shop
- Red DK/8Ply Yarn - Market
- Green DK/8ply Yarn - The warehouse
- Pink DK/8Ply Yarn - $2 Shop
- Purple DK/8Ply Yarn $2 Shop
- Light Brown DK/8Ply Yarn - $2 Shop
- Peach DK/8Ply Yarn - Gifted
Needle sizes used:
- 3.25mm Double Pointed Needles (Used as straight needles)
- 3.75 mm Double Pointed Needles (Used as straight needles)
Other tools used:
- Scissors
- Yarn needle/ tapestry needle
- Tape measure
- Stuffing
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About the completed project
I love to bake especially cupcakes but they never last long of course. So I decided to knit some for the coffee table. My children often grab these knitted cupcakes and put them on the table along with the teapot, mugs, plates etc and have their own little knitted tea party. I've made a few of these for gifts for birthdays, friendship day, thank you gifts and for tea parties for children.
[Start of image description: a photo of doily on a plate with a vanilla cupcake on it with a pink case and chocolate icing and a cherry on top. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: a photo of a doily on a plate with a vanilla cupcake inside a purple cupcake case with chocolate icing and a pink flower on top. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: a photo of a doily on a plate with a cupcake a vanilla with chocolate icing and a slice of lemon on top. End of image description.]
These bring back memories of my Nana's baking and all the times I spent in the kitchen baking morning tea or afternoon tea with my Nana. If she had visitors coming over we always baked before they arrived. She made sure the table pieces and settings were pretty and everything set up for our own little tea party with real tea (not that I was supposed to have tea) I still love tea even now.
[Start of image description: a photo of a doily on a plate with a vanilla cupcake in a lime cupcake case with chocolate icing and a lime slice on the top. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: a photo of a doily on a plate with a vanilla cupcake in a peach cupcake case with chocolate icing and a strawberry on top. End of image description.]
[Start of image description: a photo of six vanilla cupcakes with chocolate icing sitting on a doily on a plate. They are each different, there is a cupcake with lime green case and a lime slice on the top, a peach case with a strawberry, a cupcake with a pink case with a cherry, a peach cupcake case with a strawberry, a cupcake with a lemon case and a slice of lemon on top and a blue case with a blue butterfly on top. End of image description.]
These knitted cupcakes make great gifts for friends and family. The knitted cupcake pattern has about a page and half of ideas for knitted cupcakes as well. The patterns are suitable for beginner knitters who have the skills listed above. The knitted butterfly also has instructions for how to make up the butterfly along with a photo which is also quite good.
Happy Knitting friends, do you make knitted food too?
These knitted cupcakes make great gifts for friends and family. The knitted cupcake pattern has about a page and half of ideas for knitted cupcakes as well. The patterns are suitable for beginner knitters who have the skills listed above. The knitted butterfly also has instructions for how to make up the butterfly along with a photo which is also quite good.
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