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Veggies
My sister has a friend who owns a children’s boutique, and she has asked me to make up some food to sell in her store! I am so excited =) So I have spent the last couple of days working on a few veggies to sell. As you can see, I have made a carrot, corn, radish and peas in a pod. I am very proud of the radish, I think it turned out great! The corn however, I am going to redo the husk. I made it that way for simplicity, but I don’t think it looks as authentic as it would if I were to split the top into a few sections. The carrot top was kind of tricky to figure out how to do in a way that would be simple as well as durable, and I am pretty happy with it (although I didn’t stuff it well enough). The peas are fun too of course =) Naturally, I am writing down how I am making all of these in order to turn them into patterns, so those should be coming soon!
Socks are not for me
I am destined to never knit a pair of socks. The first pair (toe-up) I attempted were fine until I got to my apparently large ankles…they were frogged. The second pair got even further, I made it all the way past the heel and ankle and then I lost a needle. That pair was being worked with size 2 needles and a sport weight yarn and it it still sitting around waiting to be finished. Then I tried yet again. This time I noticed that one of my size 1 DPN’s was splitting at the tip. Not fun. So I head on down to my favorite yarn store and buy some more (along with a fair amount of yarn and other goodies). The other night I was knitting right along and one of the needles snapped in half! I know that can happen, but I didn’t expect it within a week of purchase! So I head back to the yarn store to see what can be done (this time I made it out with only one skein of yarn!), and sadly they are all out of size 1. Maybe I should take it as a sign…no more knitted socks for me. Of course that could change when my new needles arrive lol. In the meantime, I have decided to attempt to crochet a pair. I have started on this pattern which has been really easy so far. Crocheted socks…who knew?
An a totally different subject, I managed to rip off a nice chunk of my thumbnail recently. So, as you can imagine, that makes crocheting a bit difficult. Sadly that means the pattern I am currently working on will be delayed a bit. Until then, feel free to join the Beansprout Creations flickr group and post some pictures of your finished products!
Pattern Formats
I am not sure which is better, offering my free patterns in PDF format, or just putting them in a post. So, I am seeking your advice! Which is your preferance?
Loading ...I’m such a nerd…
Yep I am lol. When I decided to make a blog featuring patterns of mine, I told my husband that my goal was to be featured on the 
Craft Magazine Blog. Lame goal, I know. If you’ve never seen their blog, you should really check it out. They have several people who’s job is to scour the internet and find cool crafty things to feature. And of course there are some crochet designers (Like this one) who are featured every time a new pattern is posted. And for good reason, her stuff is great! Anyway…yesterday I was skimming through my blog feeds, and saw a post headline from the Craft blog that said something about crochet fries. So of course, my first though was, “Bummer, someone else has a pattern too!”. Then I discovered that it was mine! As you can imagine, I was very excited. Now, it wasn’t a post about my pattern exactly, it was a post showing a picture I had added to the Craft Flickr Pool…but, hey, that’s good enough for me! Here is the post if you’re interested =) As I said, I am a nerd.
Crochet Breakfast
Now available as a free download 
As promised, I am posting my pattern for breakfast food. This time, instead of using acrylic yarn as I usually do, I used some of my huge stash of cotton yarn (I have an uncontrollable urge to constantly buy cotton yarn). I definitely like the way it worked for this project, but I had to squelch the urge to turn the toast into a washcloth …hmm, if only I could figure out a way to make bacon soap to go with it =) Anyway, the pattern:
Items needed:
- 2 shades of worsted weight brown yarn (1 light and 1 dark)
- Yellow Yarn (worsted weight)
- White yarn (worsted weight)
- Size “E” crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
- Stitch marker (to mark end of rounds)
Abbreviations:
- Ch: Chain
- Dec: Decrease
- Inc: Increase
- Sc: Single crochet
Toast
ch 21
Row 1-18: Sc across, ch 1 and turn
Row 19: Sc 5 into first, sc 18, sc 5 into last, ch 1 and turn
Row 20: Sc across
Switch to dark brown yarn and sc a border around all, making sure to put 3 sc into both corners
Butter (Worked in a continuous round, use yellow yarn)
Round 1: Ch 2, sc 8 into second from hook
Round 2: [Sc 1, sc 3 into next] 4 times
Round 3: Sc 2, sc 3 into next, [sc 3, sc 3 into next] 3 times, sc 1, slip stitch into next, bind off leaving a long tail for sewing.
Assembly
Stitch the butter into place using the tail yarn.
Egg (worked in a continuous round)
White
Round 1: Ch 2, 6 into second from chain
Round 2: Inc in each (12)
Round 3: Sc 3, inc 6, sc 3 (18)
Round 4: [Sc 2, inc] 6 times (24)
Round 5: Sc 9, inc 6, sc 9 (30)
Round 6: [Sc 4, inc] 6 times (36)
Round 7: Sc 15, inc 6, sc 15 (42)
Round 8: [Sc 6, inc] 6 times (48)
Round 9: [Sc 7, inc] 6 times (54)
Round 10: Sc across, slip stitch into next, bind off and weave in ends
Yolk (yellow yarn)
Round 1: Ch 2, 6 sc into second from chain
Round 2: Inc in each
Round 3: [Sc 1, inc] 6 times
Round 4: Sc across
slip stitch into next and bind off leave a long tail for sewing
Assembly
Stitch the yolk into place using the tail yarn
Bacon
Row: 1: ch 6, sc across
Rows: 2 - 3: Sc across ch 1 and turn
Rows: 4, 6, 7,9, 10, 12, 13, 15: Dec, sc 2, inc, ch 1 and turn
Rows: 5, 8, 11, 14: Inc, sc 2, dec, ch 1 and turn
Rows: 16 – 18: Sc across ch 1 and turn
Sc a border around the bacon, slip into next, bind off and weave in ends.
To add the “white” of the bacon, you are going to make a crochet chain on the bacon. To do this, insert your hook into the bacon, pull a strand of yarn through. From there, leaving the yarn looped over your hook, repeat. Now you should have two loops on your hook, pull the second loop (the one closest to the hook) through the first. Continue this in a squiggly pattern until you reach the other end. Repeat on the other edge.
