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Hello Rainbows 🌈
Let’s go to open the 2nd box of the Gourmet Advent Calendar! Another delicacy with a touch of Christmas: The Christmas Cupcake 🧁
A cup with Christmas balls and a green cream to form the greenery of the tree, all topped with a star 🎄
This Cupcake was the first that came to mind when I prepared this Advent Calendar. Personally, I’ve never made a Cupcake and I think I would have a hard time making one like this so I wanted to at least crochet it. Well on the other hand, this one we can’t eat.. 😅 But it’s just as appetizing, isn’t it? 😋
This little Christmas Cupcake will be perfect as a Christmas decoration (I plan to put it in my tree) or as a gift! Quick and easy to crochet, it will bring its dose of Greedy to your Christmas 🎅
The pattern is suitable for crocheters with an advanced beginner level.
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- Crochet 2 mm or a crochet hook suitable for your yarn
- Cotton yarn (fingering) : Pink, Brown, Green, white, Red, Yellow
- Cardboard
- Glue or textile adhesive
- Stuffing
- Wool needle
- Stitch markers
🎁 Abbreviations used 🎁
R : Row
sc : Single crochet
Inc : Increase
Dec : Decrease
SlSt : Slip stitch
CH : Chain
hdc : Half double crochet
dc : Double crochet
ssc : Start in Single crochet
[…] : Repeat around the row
*… * : Work in the same stitch
🎅 The written explanations 🎅
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▶ The cup
(to be done with pink yarn)
R1 : magic ring with 6 sc
R2 : 1 Inc in each sc (12)
R3 : *1 sc, 1 Inc * x6 (18)
R4 : *2 sc, 1 Inc * x6 (24)
R5 : *3 sc, 1 Inc * x6 (30)
R6 : *4 sc, 1 Inc * x6 (36)
Keep the yarn on hold.
Take the bottom of our cup and place it on cardboard to make the outline. Leave this cardboard circle aside for now.
R7 : with the stitch to rise the edge (explanations below), sc in each sc (36)
R8 : *5 sc, 1 Inc * x6 (42)
Glue the cardboard circle to the bottom of the cup to keep a flat surface.
R9 to R15 : sc in each sc (42)
R16 : only in the front loop, sc in each sc (42)
Fasten off and make an invisible finish.
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➡ Explanation for the stitch to rise the edge
Tuck your hook into the stitch.
Then tuck it into the next stitch. So you have your hook in two stitches at this point.
Bring the yarn back through the two stitches, then make a single crochet. Continue like this all along
the row.
You will then obtain this result with a raised edge which gives the shape of the bottom of the cup.
▶ The cake
(to be done with brown yarn)
R1 : Tuck your hook into one of the back
loops of the previous R16 to make 1 ssc then sc in each sc
only in the back loops (42)
R2 : *5 sc, 1 dec * x6 (36)
R3 : sc in each sc (36)
Gradually stuff.
R4 : *4 sc, 1 dec * x6 (30)
R5 : *3 sc, 1 dec * x6 (24)
R6 and R7 : sc in each sc (24)
R8 : *2 sc, 1 dec * x6 (18)
R9 : sc in each sc (18)
R10 : *1 sc, 1 dec * x6 (12)
R11 : sc in each sc (12)
Finish to stuff.
R12 : 6 decreases (6)
R13 : 3 decreases (3)
R14 : Cut the yarn and pass it through the 3 remaining front loops then tighten to close the hole. Weave in ends.
▶ Cream
(to be done with green yarn)
Cast on a chain of 140 stitches.
from the 2nd stitch, make 139 sc.
Turn the chain over and start this 3rd row in the loops of the 1st row as in the photo working sc in each sc (139).
This result is obtained at the end of the 3rd row.
Turn your work over to look for the 3rd original loop of your 1st row chain which must be in the middle as in the photo.
And make single crochet in each loop (139).
Fasten off and weave in end.
Twist slightly as in the photo to give it the relief and volume of whipped cream.
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▶ Christmas balls x6
(to be done with white and red yarns)
➡ With white yarn:
R1 : magic ring with 6 sc
R2 : 1 Inc in each sc and 1 SlSt in the 1st stitch of the row to close the ring (12)
to be done in 3 times.
Fasten off and weave in ends.
➡ With red yarn:
R1 : magic ring with 4 sc
R2 : 1 Inc in each sc and 1 SlSt in the 1st stitch of the row to close the ring (8)
to be done in 3 times.
Fasten off and weave in ends.
▶ The star
(to be done with yellow yarn)
R1 : magic ring with 5 sc
R2 : 1 Inc in each sc (10)
R3 : CH 2 and from the 2nd stitch, 1 hdc. Then, 1 SlSt on the base by skipping 1 stitch.
Pattern to be repeated 5 times for the 5 branches.
Finish with 1 SlSt in the first starting stitch.
Fasten off and weave in ends.
▶ Assembly and finishes for Cupcake
➡ Cream
Start gluing the 1st end of the cream from the bottom and from the 3rd/4th row of the cake.
Put the glue on the cone as you go and place the cream on it by wrapping it around the cone while
keeping the twist of the cream to give relief.
You should no longer see the brown part.
At the top, twist the rest of the cream on itself to form the point.
Use pins to hold the cream in place when the glue dries.
➡ The decoration of the cup with the Christmas balls
Glue a first white ball on the cup at the level of the middle of the cup vertically.
Then alternate white balls and red balls, spacing them 3 sc each.
➡ Adding the star
Add glue to one of the spaces between 2 branches of the star and place it on top of the cream.
I hope you like the pattern for this second box of my Gourmet Advent Calendar! 😊
See you on December 18 to discover the last box!
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See you soon Rainbows ! 🙂🌈