Project Cupcake!

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I'm on the hunt for the perfect cupcake pincushion pattern. This is the story so far...



It started out long, long ago, when I tried a pattern I found. Or I thought I had.



There was a slight size issue. So I turned the top into a jellyfish and left the bottom part sitting on my desk for the better part of a year. Finally, I decided to pick it back up and went for it...


(Shown with pins in it)

Not bad! Except... suddenly I realize that's not the top that's supposed to go with it. I've pulled from two different patterns, it seems. So I try again, using the pattern for the bottom and its matching top, and get this:


pattern here

I can't say I'm crazy about it. I still love the bottom, but not so much the very pie-crust-edge top. So how about making the cupcake that was the top portion? That would be this one:


pattern here

It looks a little... short and stubby, to be honest. Okay, easy enough to solve - I'll just add some rows to the bottom part! And I totally thought I'd done that, but evidently not. I can't find it.

EDIT Found it!



...and at least I got to it before it turned into a moldy cupcake!

Anyway, that didn't make it much better (I still liked the bottom of the other one more), so I made another mix-n-match cupcake (on purpose this time!)



My hubby said it still looked like the top was a little poofy for a real cupcake, so I took out a few of the sc rows and ended up with this:


(I don't know why this picture refuses to show up for me here - it's a C&P of another post that works just fine, but if it doesn't show for you it's here)

Not bad, not bad... but then I went on a Google run and came up with these:


pattern here

This one might look good as just a cupcake if you used some textured yarn on the top, but it certainly wouldn't work as a pincushion.


pattern here

This one seems good at first glance, but unless you carefully shape it the bottom tends to poof out and round a lot, which because of the ridge looks funny:



And the final one I tried:


pattern here

This one is also a bit rounded, but not bad.

Overall, I think the combination of the first two remains my favorite.

I know there are tons of other patterns out there, anybody have any great ones they're tried that they want to recommend? These are all crocheted, but I do also knit, so those are fair game, too!