Piped Crochet on Teddy Bear

Those Teddys sure do look cozy. 😊 So cute!

This challenge could not have been further from my comfort zone!  What?  Small size piped lines, many of them, in sets that need to be perfectly sized, PME 1.5 tip (I never thought I would use this small a tip).  I was determined to participate but I had no confidence that I could really create piped crochet.

I knew that I wanted to use Marlyn's (of Montreal Confections) precious teddy bear cookie with a turtleneck sweater to try Evelin's piped crochet on, substituting piped crochet for the cable knit Marlyn used.

I had so little confidence in my ability to produce piped crochet that I started with the first three sweaters as Royal Icing Transfers so that I could use graph paper below the transfers to help me with the spacing.  Even with the graph paper help, I could see in the first two sweaters that tip 1.5 was too large for the project.  I switched to the PME 1.0 tip (amazing for me!).  This helped with sweater number three, although still far from the perfect crochet I was striving for.

I finally summoned enough courage to try piping directly on teddy cookie # four.  While still not the perfection I was looking for, I was surprised how well it did turn out and how much easier than I had first thought.  To be this successful provided such confidence-building!

Thanks so much, Julia, for the wonderful opportunities the challenges on your site provide for continued growth in my cookie decorating venture!  And thank you to Evelin and to Manu for the great tutorial and resources that were provided to us!

Hi Tee, glad to see your entry and just in time! I see that you have used the "half crochet technique", explained by Evelin at the end of her video, and you opted to not finish with the final central line. As Evelin said, it's half technique but it works, as it reminds of knitting or crochet. I find it very cute. Out of curiosity, why did you opted for this variation?

I think I was a little stressed and forgot about the last step!

@TeeAdri posted:

This challenge could not have been further from my comfort zone!  What?  Small size piped lines, many of them, in sets that need to be perfectly sized, PME 1.5 tip (I never thought I would use this small a tip).  I was determined to participate but I had no confidence that I could really create piped crochet.

I knew that I wanted to use Marlyn's (of Montreal Confections) precious teddy bear cookie with a turtleneck sweater to try Evelin's piped crochet on, substituting piped crochet for the cable knit Marlyn used.

I had so little confidence in my ability to produce piped crochet that I started with the first three sweaters as Royal Icing Transfers so that I could use graph paper below the transfers to help me with the spacing.  Even with the graph paper help, I could see in the first two sweaters that tip 1.5 was too large for the project.  I switched to the PME 1.0 tip (amazing for me!).  This helped with sweater number three, although still far from the perfect crochet I was striving for.

I finally summoned enough courage to try piping directly on teddy cookie # four.  While still not the perfection I was looking for, I was surprised how well it did turn out and how much easier than I had first thought.  To be this successful provided such confidence-building!

Thanks so much, Julia, for the wonderful opportunities the challenges on your site provide for continued growth in my cookie decorating venture!  And thank you to Evelin and to Manu for the great tutorial and resources that were provided to us!

Oh! I wrote my previous comment too early, before you posted the description of your entry.
I am glad you participate especially because piping lines it was something out of your comfort zone. And it looks like you ended up using even a smaller tip!
Now I also understand why you put “royal icing transfers” among the tags. I still use tranfers a lot when I am not confident to pipe directly on the cookie! At the end of the video we can see @Evelindecora playing with the transfer of the royal icing crochet that she piped as a demo on the acetate. I was too busy talking about the rules that I noticed the transfer only when I edited the video. So it is possible to make that transfer. Once one starts mastering the technique it surely become easier to pipe directly on the cookie and your bear # four turned out really well.

So cute - glad to see your bears made it to the challenge!

Oh, your teddies look so warm in their gorgeous pullovers! Congratulations ♥️

Super cute.

Awe! These are super cute @TeeAdri! 💙

Such cute Teddy Bears!!! And such cute crochet sweaters! = soooo cute cookies!! ❤️  @TeeAdri

Adorable