Grab a Slice

Hello! How’s everyone this week? I’m so tired! I had to work on Sunday night and stayed out late after. I feel like I’m not young enough to do that, because it’s Tuesday and I’m still trying to make up the lost sleep. I’m just dragging and can’t wake up today either! But luckily I’ve got today’s post all ready to go, except with my lil’ blurb part at the beginning here.
This week I wanted to go with something fun and, really, who doesn’t think pizza is fun? I wanted to keep this design simple, while incorporating tapestry into the design. You can leave the color C portions off and draw them on later with puffy paint or something if you don’t want to do the tapestry work. In the places where the “pepperonis” are I just did the couple scs, dropped the yarn, and picked it back up when I got to it again, like if you were using bobbins, I hope that makes sense. Either way, I hope you like this new pattern combo! 😀

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Materials: 

Earrings:

• 2.25 mm crochet hook
• Size 10 crochet thread
  • I used Aunt Lydia‘s
  • Less than 1 oz of each
• Needle that will weave in your ends
• Fabric stiffener (optional)
• Jump rings
• Metal french hooks
• Jewelry pliers

Applique:

• US G (4.00) mm crochet hook
• Worsted weight/ size #4/ medium weight yarn
  •  .5 Oz/ 25 yards
  • I used Sugar and Cream cotton yarn for this (3 colors)
• Yarn needle

Gauge:

• 2.25: 1″ x 1″ = 10 scs x 10 rows
• G: 4.5” x 4.5” = 19 dcs x 9 rows

Terms/ stitches used:

• Ch: Chain
• St: Stitch
• Slip St: Slip Stitch
• Sc: Single Crochet

Notes:

• The ch 1, at the beginning of the rows does not count as a stitch.
• Both patterns are worked back and forth,  with a turn at the beginning/ end of the row.
• Color A is off white, color B is yellow ,and color C is red.
• All of the stitches in this pattern are single crochets, because of this the sides portion (where all the color changes are) only tells you how many stitches to do in what color, this is what the number in the parentheses means.
• Color C is only worked where it’s at and then dropped, while color A is carried beneath it.
• Also check out this post about tapestry crochet from Moogly, it’s helpful.
• You can replace the chain row with a foundation single crochet row.
• This is a good how-to on carrying yarn through the pizzas in the photos. Here’s a great tutorial on color changes.

Finished measurements
Earrings:

• Height: 1.75″ (not including findings)
• Width: 1.75″ (not including findings)

Applique: 

• Height: 5″
• Width: 4.5″

Pattern instructions:

Earrings: (make 2)

Row 1: A: Ch 16, sc into the second ch from the hook and into the next 14 sts – 15 scs
Row 2: Ch 1, turn, sc into the next 15 sts – 15 scs
Fasten off color A.
Row 3: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog the first 2 sts, B: (8), C: (2), B: (1), B: sc2tog – 11 scs, 2 sc2togs
Row 4: B: Ch 1, turn, (2), C: (2), B: (4), C: (2), B: (3) – 13 scs
Row 5: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (1), C: (2), B: (6), B: sc2tog – 9 scs, 2 sc2tog
Fasten off color C.
Row 6: B: Ch 1, turn, (11) – 11 scs
Row 7: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (4), C: (2), B: (1), B: sc2tog – 7 scs, 2 sc2tog
Row 8: B: Ch 1, turn, (2), C: (2), B: (5) – 9 scs
Fasten off color C.
Row 9: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (5), B: sc2tog – 5 scs, 2 sc2tog
Row 10: B: Ch 1, turn, (3), C: (2), B: (2) – 7 scs
Row 11: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, C: (2), B: (1), B: sc2tog : 3 scs, 2 sc2tog
Fasten off color C.
Row 12: B: Ch 1, turn, (5) – 5 scs
Row 13: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (1), B: sc2tog – 1 sc, 2 sc2togs
Row 14: B: Ch 1, turn, (3) – 3 scs
Row 15: B: Ch 1, sc2tog, B: (1) – 1 sc2tog, 1 sc
Row 16: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog – 1 sc2tog
Row 17: B: Ch 1, turn, sc – 1 sc
Fasten off color B, weave in all your ends.

Finishing:
Once you get all your ends woven in, lay the pizzas down and coat them in fabric stiffener. Once they’re nice and coated, lay ’em flat and let ’em air dry. Once they’re dry, secure your findings to them as you’d like (in corners or the center as I have made here).
I always use fabric stiffener when I make earrings because it helps ’em keep their shape, which is important when you’re making things, like pizza, that tend to be very recognizable.

Applique:
Row 1: A: Ch 20, sc into the second ch from the hook and into the next 18 sts – 19 scs
Row 2: A: Ch 1, turn, sc into the next 19 sts – 19 scs
Fasten off color A.
Row 3: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (15), B: sc2tog – 15 scs, 2 sc2togs
Row 4: B: Ch 1, turn, (17) – 17 scs
Row 5: B: Ch 1, turn, sctog, B: (2), C: (3), B: (4), C: (3), B: (1), B: sc2tog – 13 scs, 2 sc2tog
Row 6: B: Ch 1, turn, (2), C: (3), B: (4), C: (3), B: (3) – 15 scs
Fasten off color C.
Row 7: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (11), B: sc2tog – 11 scs, 2 sc2togs
Row 8: B: Ch 1, turn, (13) – 13 scs
Row 9: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, C: (3), B: (6), B: sc2tog – 9, 2 sc2tog
Row 10: B: Ch 1, turn, (7), C: (3), B: (1) – 11 scs
Fasten off color C.
Row 11: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, (7), sc2tog – 7 scs, 2 sc2togs
Row 12: B: Ch 1, turn, (9) – 9 scs
Row 13: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (2), C: (3), B: sc2tog – 5 scs, 2 sc2togs
Row 14: B: Ch 1, turn, (1), C: (3), B: (3) – 7 scs
Fasten off color C.
Row 15: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (3), B: sctog – 3 scs, 2 sc2togs
Row 16: B: Ch 1, turn, (5) – 5 scs
Row 17: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog, B: (1), B: sc2tog – 1 sc, 2 sc2togs
Row 18: B: Ch 1, turn, (3) – 3 scs
Row 19: B: Ch 1, turn, sctog, B: (1) – 1 sc, 1 sc2tog
Row 20: B: Ch 1, turn, sc2tog – 1 sc2tog
Row 21: B: Ch 1, turn, sc – 1 sc
Fasten off color B, weave in all your ends.

 

 

Tada! I hope you like the Pizza duo here and make a one or both of the patterns. 😀 See ya next week.