Crochet Play Food

I had made several scarves and headbands to give as gifts when I realized, crochet can be so much more than boring blankets and scarves. Everyone does those and I wanted to do something different, something interesting.

My daughter loves to watch and pretend to cook when she sees me or my husband preparing food. That’s when it struck me – I would crochet her some play food so she could “cook” along with us! I went online and couldn't believe the number of patterns that are available to make almost any food you can think of out of yarn!

I found most of these very easy to make, although it did force me to learn several new stitches such as the half double crochet, triple crochet, and front post crochet. Some of these are a bit difficult for a novice such as myself but I found that by watching a few videos on youtube, I was able to quickly get the hang of these new stitches.

Hope you enjoy the finished products. I found them to be so fun and cute - I'm definitely planning to make more!! For links to the patterns, please follow my 'Crochet - Food' board on Pinterest

Embrace your inner old lady

I have recently found a new hobby (aka obsession) – Crochet! In February, my mother in law came to visit and she was crocheting a dress for my daughter. I once attempted to learn knitting several years back and failed pretty miserably. Nonetheless, I asked her to show me how to crochet. She showed me how to do a basic chain and a double crochet stitch and within a few days, I had completed my first scarf! You could say I was hooked (pun intended).

Over the next few weeks I made my mom and sister some scarves and made a bow for a friend's baby. A couple days later, I was home sick and I thought I’d try my hand in making a bunny hat. It was really easy since I watched a video tutorial (links included below). I loved the finished product! My daughter… not so much, she wore it for about 10 seconds and hasn’t worn it since. I couldn’t even get a decent picture of her in it.

I find crochet to be a very relaxing and very rewarding hobby. The repetitive motions are soothing and focusing on a simple task helps me decompress and forget about the stress of the day. If you are
interested in learning crochet, I’d recommend watching some youtube tutorials. There are tons out
there. Here are a few tutorials that I watched and enjoyed.

B. Hooked Crochet: lots of beginner video tutorials, teaching you the basics from the absolute beginning including explanations of hooks, yarn, and basic stitches.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrSuS969matU--vDkBYh1Tg

Wooly Wonders Crochet: Tutorials on making hats, blankets, etc. – the videos are very easy to follow
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyToSTyaK64TeKwkST6a7AQ

Melanie Ham: Tutorials on how to make easy crochet projects
https://www.youtube.com/user/iheartstitching

Here are the videos I watched for the bunny hat:
Pattern and tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFccsjOKGd8 (part 1) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i7lQMBVZjg (part 2)

Hope you find these videos to be helpful! More crochet posts to come...