My Own Pattern IV: Cupcake

Here is another seamless wonder - a cupcake! Seamless! How can you resist? It can also be converted from a plush toy to a paperweight, with the addition of a round stone in the stuffing.







Materials:
worsted weight yarn in cake, icing and cherry colours
3.75 mm dpns
stuffing
needle
plastic cap, or bottom of plastic water bottle, to fit into the base of the cupcake
round, heavy stone that fits into the plastic cap (if making a paperweight)

With cake colour, cast on 6 sts on dpns.
Row 1 (and all odd-numbered rows): k all sts
Row 2: kfb into each st (12 sts)
Row 4: [kfb, k1] across (18 sts)
Row 6: [kfb, k1] across (27 sts)
Row 8: [kfb, k2] across (36 sts)
Row 9: p all sts (36 sts)
Rows 10-19: [k1,p1] across (36 sts)

Switch to icing colour.
Row 20: k all sts (36 sts)
Row 21-30: p all sts (36 sts)
Row 31: decrease 6 sts evenly across
Row 32: p all sts (30 sts)
Row 33: decrease 6 sts evenly across (24 sts)
Row 34: p all sts (24 sts)
Place plastic lid into the base of the cupcake (and then the stone, if making a paperweight), and fill with stuffing.
Row 35: p2tog across (12 sts)
Row 36: p all sts (12 sts)
Row 37: p2tog across (6 sts)

Switch to cherry colour.
Row 38: k all sts (6 sts)
Row 39: kfb into each st (12 sts)
Row 40: k all sts (12 sts)
Row 41: k2tog across (6 sts)
Cut yarn, leaving a 6-inch tail. Thread needle with yarn, and run needle through remaining sts. Fasten tightly and knot. Pull knot through the centre of the cherry, with the needle emerging at the base of the cherry. Wind the yarn tightly around the base of the cherry, pass it through the cherry again, emerging at the top. Trim yarn to resemble a cherry stem.

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Cupcakes Made By Other Bloggers - great mods in italics

• Knitting Nerd's cupcake
  
• Bittersweet's many cupcakes here, here, here, and here - Bittersweet added an extra increase row in the icing to make it poof out more.
  
• Candikaneiscrafty's cupcake
  
• Obstinknit Vegan's cupcakes and muffins - Obstiknit Vegan added an extra increase row in the icing, and omitted row 1 for a flatter bottom.
  
• ijsblokje's cupcakes here and here - on the first row of icing, (kf&b, k1) across
  
• whimsy used plush yarn for hers
  
• craftgrrl's creation is here
  
• Absent Knitter made this one
  
• wyrdfae's purple version
  
• Tracy's cupcake has a face!
  
• loves2experiment's cupcake, here, has a slubby pink icing top
  
• Kat of Noe Knit in San Francisco made this pair of cupcakes. Check out the store's window display.
  
• Ann braided the stem of her cupcake - cute! She also made this nostalgic one, here.
  
• Megan made the puffier modified version, here, and here.
  
• dabblersupreme did the icing in stocking stitch.
  
• Happy birthday, Wenjomatic!
  
• Zulema made her cupcake to practice knitting in the round.
  
• atomicrose's cupcake,
  
• ame's cupcake is here.
  
• rupestur made a blueberry muffin rattle.
  
• The Shopping Sherpa knitted all these lovely cupcakes and added lavender pouches.
  
• The cupcake at Knitique Yarn Boutique (love that name!) has a knitted candle and flame.
  
• Miss Carolyn's cupcake has ribbons.
  
• Yasmin's cupcake is the English "fairy" kind.
  
• echo_me's cupcake is here.
  
• Zulema's knitting-in-the-round practice cupcake is here.
  
• This fat, round cupcake is at the Pea Soup blog.
  
• SmallMeadow Farm's cupcake has a needle felted bottom.
  
• Bag of Chocolates shows how to get rid of that annoying bump at the bottom, and offers her pattern modification here.
  
• Jennifer made not one, but two cupcakes, with modifications for an overhanging lid, like on a muffin.
  
• If you have a Ravelry account, the cupcake gallery is here.