Knitted Cupcake

In May’s Every Hour on the Hour post, one of my photos that represented an hour of my day was that of me sewing the seam for one of my current craft projects. I was making a knitted cupcake with a removable cake case! I purchased the pattern from Cakes Knits and Cosies at Etsy¹, and I’ve been experimenting with different colors for the cake cases, as well as different icings and decoration for each cupcake!

This particular cupcake was the very first one I made. It has a blue cake case, which can be removed from the actual cupcake, a vanilla cupcake base, yellow icing, with a pink cherry on top and pink sprinkles scattered atop the cupcake². The cake case was knit in a rib stitch, the cake base and cherry in a stockinette stitch, and the icing in a reverse stockinette stitch (for a more textured look in comparison to the smooth cake base), with each piece of the cupcake and cake case having various other stitches for increasing and decreasing during the knitting process. It was a fairly easy knit; I had knitted and stuffed the cake case, cake, and decoration in one night!

I gave this cupcake as a present to one of my high school teachers. She was the faculty sponsor for my high school’s knitting club and over the years has become more of a friend than teacher to me, a sort of “mentor,” if you will. It only seemed fitting that any gift I give her be one that I knit, seeing as I spent so much time with her and other members of the club knitting! She loved it, and I think that cupcakes will make perfect gifts. They’re lovely to look at and very cute, and they would be very handy pincushions!

1. For those who crochet and do not knit, I believe Cakes Knits and Cosies have crochet patterns for cupcakes as well as knitting ones. [↩]
2. You can’t clearly see the sprinkles in the photo due to the lighting and my poor photography skills, but if you click on the thumbnail for an enlarged version, the sprinkles are visible. [↩]

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.