I just have to tell you about my friend Lauren’s Etsy shop. She is an expert at making imaginative, whimsical crocheted objects and the creator of Yum Yum Yarn. You can buy her creations at the shop and she also offers PDF patterns for us crafty folks. (all less than 5$, wow).
Personally I am a big fan of her crocheted cookies and fancy treats. They look amazing in a cookie jar and I bet little kids would love them. My sister and I always loved pretending to make snacks and have tea parties, but I must say the mass produced plastic “foods” we had to play with weren’t nearly as nice as these soft handmade lovelies. The odd time we used real cookies we made quite a mess pretending that the bears were eating them.
I think these would make a nice present for grandkids at Christmas. If you buy the pattern you could make quite a few of them and put them in stockings or package them in recycled jars. Each of her PDF’s have instructions for a few kinds of cookies so you can make a variety. I’m sure you could get creative and make different coloured centres and use a variety of yarn colours to create different “flavours”. Some of these would be a great project for beginners or for teaching young ones who are just learning how to crochet since they are small and you can finish them fairly quickly. (My grandma definitely influenced my love for textiles.)
She makes other things too; crocheted dolls, cactus and voodoo doll pin cushions and a variety of finger puppets. All simply adorable and carefully made by Lauren. What a sweet treat! I hope she comes out with her own pattern book some day, that would be fantastic.
