Crochet cupcake

Is there anyone out there who dosen't like cupcakes? I don't think so.

I am a huge fan of ♥cupcakes♥. Although I have baked a few different varieties of cakes I haven't baked cupcakes, but I love cupcake patterns, I love to paint cupcakes, love to cross-stitch cupcakes and, of course, I loved crocheting this cute cupcake.

Can you see the ridges in the body of the cupcake as in real cupcake liners? I crocheted into the back loops of the stitches only to achieve this and I thought I might as well make a tutorial for those of you who are not familiar with this particular crocheting technique.

For this cupcake I first made a round to form the base. Then I made the sides separately and joined them together, stuffed the cupcake and finally sewed the top.

How to crochet into back loops only 

1. First make a number of chains according to the length that you desire. Then make a row of single crochet. (Please excuse the quality of photos).

2. If you are using different colours you can attach another colour. Then you have to work into the back loops of the stitches.

First let me show you what is a back loop and what is a front loop.

In this picture you can see clearly which is a back loop and which is a front loop. Normally we work into both the loops together but to form ridges you have to work into the back loops only.

You can see that I have worked the next row in white into the back loops only.

You can see how the pattern has formed. I made two rows using pink and one row using white and the white yarn was lot thicker than the pink yarn. The second row of each pink stripe was worked as a normal single crochet without working into the back loops.

After reaching the desired length to correspond to the circumference of the circle I sewed them both together as shown. 

  

Now the body of the cupcake is formed. Then I made the top.

To make the dome shaped top, make 4 ch and join to form a ring.

Make 3 ch and 11 dc into the ring.

3 ch, 1 dc in same place, 2 dc each in all the stitches (24 dc). Join.

3 ch, 1 dc in same place, *1 dc in next stitch, 2 dc in next. Repeat from *. Join.

3 ch, 1 dc in each stitch. Join.

3 ch, 1 dc in same place, *1 dc in next stitch, 2 dc in next. Repeat from *. Join.

3 ch, 1 dc in each dc. Join.

Make a shell edging by skipping 2 st, make 7 dc into next st, skip 2 st, make 7 dc into next stitch, repeat.  Do the stuffing and sew the top to the body of cupcake.

Make a small flower and sew it to the top of the cupcake. This serves as my pincushion now.