While I intend to review the entirety of the book Kawaii Crochet by Melissa Bradley later, this one will focus in on ice cream cone patterns. Out of all the patterns I scoured, this one offers the most realistic looking crochet ice cream cake cup cone. This is because it uses a technique that is a little more advanced (the front post half double crochet), while most other patterns stick to techniques that are familiar to beginners.
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.
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.
