I love ice cream. It’s tasty and it’s cute and it works up quickly. In time for your summer markets, here is my round up review of various ice cream crochet patterns both free and paid. Here at Amy’s Amigurumi Adventure, I, Amy, make this promise to you: I will personally try every pattern I ever recommend. I think it’s lame and clickbait-y otherwise. Here are the 5 crochet ice cream patterns I tried, as well as a bonus ice cream pattern I designed.
Difficulty: Beginner-friendly
Rating: Highly recommend
This pattern is cute, clean, quick, and easy. If you’re trying to make a lot of items in bulk this summer, either for a market or as a birthday party favor, this pattern should be your go to. As with most free patterns, there are only photos of the finished product and not the steps in-between, but the pattern is still pretty simple.
However, there are certain ways she writes this that might some beginners to pattern reading, so here are some of my notes:
“sc inc in every 2nd stitch” = (sc, inc) around. For round 3 of the ice cream, this is (sc, inc) X6.
“sc inc in every 3rd stitch = (sc, sc, inc). This can also be written as (sc 2, inc).
“sc inc in every 4th stitch” = (sc, sc, sc, inc). This can also be written as (sc 3, inc).
“dec in every 3rd stitch” = (sc, sc, dec). This can also be wwritten as (sc 2, dec).
“work even” = sc all the way around
For this pattern, I chose to skip joining and just do continuous spirals for the ice cream cone, and found that worked just fine.
2. Copaceticcrocheter’s Ice Cream (FREE)
Difficulty: Beginner-friendly
Rating: Recommend
You must be careful if you decide to mix and match yarns from different brands, even if they are of the same weight. I decided to try to see what would happen if I used my tan yarn from one brand and scoop yarn from another (both worsted), and it created this ugly disaster:
The proportions were all wrong. I redid it so both the yarn and cone were in the same yarn brand (Caron Simply Soft) and it was much better.
Quick pattern notes for beginners:
ft loops means front loops.
bk loops means back loops.
3. Kawaii Crochet by Melissa Bradley (Paid)
Difficulty: Advanced beginner. More advanced than the rest on this list (more below)
Rating: Recommend
This pattern requires use of the fphdc (front post half double crochet) stitch, and that is not a beginner-friendly instruction. As with most quality crochet books, the book has a helpful glossary explaining each of the basic stitches at the end. The patterns are written in a way that are more common and “modern” for amigurumi, and similar to how patterns are taught by the Woobles and how I write mine as well. If you want to try this one, I’d look up how to do the fphdc and see if you’re up for it. It creates the nice waffle-like pattern at the bottom that is missing from the other ice cream cake cup cones on this list. The pattern is otherwise beginner friendly.
It’s not my aesthetic to put faces on my food, though, so I personally left those parts out. Also, I’ll note that while the pattern book tries lists the three different displayed ice cream as three different patterns in three different sections of the book, the cone and the ice cream scope are identical for each. The only part that varies is whether you top it with a strawberry, chocolate cream + strawberry, or blueberries.
4. Crochet Cafe: Recipes for Amigurumi Crochet Patterns by Lauren Epsy (Paid)
Difficulty: Beginner-friendly
Rating: Highly Recommend
The ice cream crochet pattern in Crochet Cafe was my favorite. I loved the proportions on this one. As with Kawaii Crochet, I decided faces on my ice cream were a bit too cute for my tastes, but instructions on how to do it are there.
There are very clear photo instructions for each step including how to sew the pieces together if sewing is something you’re still trying to learn.
Pattern notes:
These patterns use * instead of (, but those mean the same thing.
5. Yarnspiration Soft-Serve Ice Cream (FREE)
Difficulty: Beginner-friendly
Rating: Recommend
The title to this one isn’t soft-serve ice cream, but that’s what I think it looks like. It also works up quickly. Here are some notes for interpreting the written pattern:
“2sc in the next st” is another way of instructing someone to do a standard increase stitch.
I have an article and video showing you how to crochet in the second chain from the hook, and how to do a chain 1 and turn, which you’ll need for the top of the ice cream.
Also, stuffing matters! Mine ended up having slightly a different shape because I shaped mine differently. Overall, I didn’t really love the shape of even the “example” pattern, but it’s something to try if you want a change from all the sugar and cup cake ice cream cones.
BONUS PATTERN:
Crochet Ice Cream Cake Cup Cone Pattern by Amy’s Amigurumi Adventure (that’s me!)
I decided I preferred slightly different proportions between the cone and the scoop.
