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I’m continuing to work on my existing yarn stash and decided to crochet French Food.

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I’m determined to work through my large stash of yarn and have been working on amigurumi patterns that I can use it up. It started out when I wanted to do a crochet dim sum series. It was a lot of fun, and they turned out so cute.

Why Crochet French Food?

After making the crochet dim sum, I kind of got on a roll of making crochet food. The next logical theme to me was to crochet French food.

I’ve been fortunate to have been to Paris a couple of times in the last few years, and I must admit that the food there is amazing. Sitting in a French cafe is one of my favourite things to do.

So what things are quintessentially French? I was thinking croissants, macarons and baguettes. Sure enough, there are amigurumi patterns online for me to crochet French food. Best of all, these patterns that I am going to share with you are all free!

If you’ve never done crochet amigurumi before, don’t worry. I’ve got you covered. Be sure to check out my 5 helpful amigurumi tips.

Crochet Croissant

This seemed to be the most logical item to start with. I have had many a croissant in Paris. A typical breakfast or petit déjeuner would be a croissant with a café crème. It was a great way to start the day.

The amigurumi pattern I used for my crochet croissant is from One Dog Woof. I must admit that I’ve done a number of her amigurumi patterns. They are always well thought out, and they just always work. The crochet croissant pattern is especially clever as it is constructed in 3 pieces.

In my yarn stash, I found some Vanna’s Choice worsted weight yarn (category 4) in the colour mustard, which I thought would work well for a crochet croissant.

While the construction, as mentioned, is clever, I must admit that assembling it – specifically the 3rd and last piece which wraps around, does take a lot of finessing. I basically had to fuss with it until I got the look I wanted.

It also required some experimentation. I ended up making the third piece (the top roll) using the same hook as the croissant body. The pattern suggests sizing up a hook for that, and I didn’t like how it looked. But that’s the nice thing about amigurumi – you can modify things here and there to get the look you want, and it’s pretty easy to do. I ended up using the same hook for all 3 pieces.

Crochet Macarons

You can’t go to Paris and now have a Macaron. Between Pierre Hermes and Ladurée, the options are endless and oh, so tasty.

Now there are actually several crochet macaron patterns online, but quite a few of them didn’t look quite right to me. Having baked macarons, one of the criteria for the shell is the “feet”. I wanted to crochet a macaron that had “feet” – otherwise, they just look like cookies or whoopee pies. Some patterns looked like they were too tall, so that doesn’t work either. Others have a lot of filling, and so the proportions look off to me. In the end, I decided on the crochet macaron pattern from someone I’ve never tried patterns from before, Bomuldskys.

The neat thing about making crochet macarons is that you can use a variety of colours since macarons come in so many flavours. The pattern is written for a very fine yarn, category 1. Since I was only going to use yarn that was in my stash, I had to adapt, as I mainly have worsted-weight (category 4) yarn.

I love the look of these. The macaron shells have feet, and the filling is not too much.

There is perhaps one tricky thing about this pattern, and that would be the final row of the shell colour. The last row requires you to crochet a double crochet over 2 rows. Therefore, you need to insert your hook, NOT into the row you just did, which would be the normal way, but into the previous row. The result is that the double crochet stitch covers the round you just did (in my case, the 4th round). I really like this technique for the macaron – it creates the “feet”.

It was lots of fun mixing and matching colours to make a variety of macarons. Since they are so small, they work up quickly. I kind of went overboard and made a bunch.

Crochet Baguette

Of course, I had to make a baguette. It wouldn’t be French food without a crocheted baguette.

Interestingly, there aren’t that many free crochet patterns for a baguette. A quick Google search showed many variations – baguettes with feet or a beret or as a bunny. But I just wanted a regular baguette.

I settled upon the free pattern from StringyDingDing. The baguette shown has a beret, moustache and arms and legs, but it is easy to omit those extra parts and accessories and just make the baguette.

I used beige and cream yarn, as well as a 4mm crochet hook, as the pattern suggests.

The crochet pattern does not begin and end the same way. I personally wanted a more symmetrical baguette, and so I made a few changes to the pattern.

Since this pattern uses 2 colours, I suggest you make sure to carry the yarn with you as you crochet when working with the cream coloured yarn.

Also, since the baguette is quite “big”, I strongly suggest using a row counter as it makes it easier to keep track of. This can simply be a tally using a pencil and paper, or you can use a row counter, which is also used for knitting.

I really love my crochet French food. Which one is your favourite?

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