DIY Life

In the last couple of days, we've taken a long look at amigurumi and discovered some darling patterns for animals to crochet or knit. Today, it's all about food.

Amigurumi food tends to skew cute, childish, and sugary: for several reasons, you're more likely to find a pattern for anthropomorphized vegetables or frosted cupcakes than for a juicy steak, though steak wouldn't be out of the question if it had big eyes and a tiny smile.

• Hannah at BitterSweet has done many free patterns for food, always accompanied by evocative stories, like One Bad Egg and Two Peas in a Pod. She designs for both knitters and crocheters. (I neglected her in the animal pattern roundup yesterday: please check out her other patterns!)
• Ana Paula Rimoli has a frilly cupcake and a happy fried egg to crochet.
• Peachcake Knits has designed a whole bowl of knitted fruit people: apple, banana, peach, lemon/lime, and pear.

More after the break! And join us tomorrow for the wrap-up of my Amigurumi-o-rama: pop culture amigurumi.

• Another cupcake at Canadian Living. Yes, this is by the same designer as yesterday's duck, but it's good.
• This Bakewell Tart to crochet is like a cupcake.
• Pretty little crocheted cakes! Very detailed, with a lot of variety.
• This crocheted Psychotic Tomato is a mildly alarming alternative to all the cuteness.
• Knit fruit and vegetable rattles from Jimmy Beans Wool.
• Crocheted pears (Australian and American directions).
• Tiny apples on Craftster.
• I'm not sure whether knit and crocheted sushi necessarily counts as amigurumi... but in case you think it does, here's some knit sushi and a sushi-style toilet paper cover that requires both skills.
• Flickr pools: Gourmet Crochet and Knitting, Play Food!, and Sweet Stuff.
• Amigurumi Kingdom makes hybrid amigurumi, among other things: cupcakes, bonbons, and lollipops which are also bears, bears which are also unicorns, and so on. No free patterns, but you might like to see what she's doing.