Aug 20, 2025

Made the cheesecake top layer.

Aug 22, 2025

Started the base, using 2 strands of laceweight coned beige.

Aug 22, 2025

Finished the biscuit base. Started on the cylinder side.

Final round of cheesecake top:
Instead of an invisible st to finish & cut yarn, I pulled the yarn through front to back to finish invisibly that way and then, rather than cutting the yarn, I did a slst into the 1st BLO. Then continued as per pattern. It seems to look the same as it would have done by cutting the yarn as per pattern. Will suggest this as an alternative.

R1 of cylinder:
Used a 2mm hook to make sure tension was tight. I’d tried it with the same 2.5mm hook and it didn’t ‘stand up’ as much as pattern required it to.

Aug 29, 2025

Redid the cheesecake with Drops 7.
Got more colours in Drops 7 to do the chocolate (from @LittleWoolShop.Com on IG).

Aug 30, 2025

Used 2 strands of DMC stranded embroidery thread along with 45 Bright Sand for the cookie biscuit base.

Sept 1, 2025

Made 1st strawberry (used 1 strand each of red Yeoman & red El Dorado - or did I?? I can’t remember!).
Added chocolate drizzles to cheesecake top - seemed to take ages because I was fart-arsing around with perfection!!

When I was sewing the biscuit base to the cylinder, I put stitch markers on every 9th st on the cylinder and a matching st marker on every 8th one on the biscuit base. That way I knew where I’d need to do an extra sewing st (2 sts in one) on the base.

Sept 2, 2025

Started an ombre mousse cake.

Sept 3, 2025

More ombré work.

Sept 4, 2025

Finished the biscuit sides of the mini cheesecake v1.
Sewed the base to the sides.

Sept 5, 2025

Chocolate drizzle for cheesecake v1 (later changed this to strawberry).
Biscuit base for the ombré mousse.

Sept 6, 2025

Decided to add a piece of plastic around the sides as well, to give extra stability. That allowed more stuffing to be added, to give height to pack out the base without making the sides bulky.

Also made the plastic circle for the base a little larger than the top, so that the crochet circle base would stretch when it was sewn to the cylinder sides (I found on my first 2, the base wasn’t quite as flat).

Sept 7, 2025

Finished feedback in file.

Sept 8, 2025

Comments weren’t visible to the designer, created another copy then the original comments disappeared for me too!! Spent the late afternoon/evening recreating them. Aaargh!!

Sept 9, 2025

Continued on with (and finished) the strawberry wedge, using red Yeoman & red Southern Maid. Used Pearl for the embroidery.

Leaves: using 30 Bottle Green.

Changed drizzles for v1 of the mini cheesecake to red / strawberry (decided 2 chocolate ones would be a bit boring!)

Sept 16, 2025

Sewed the seeds onto the strawberry half and wedge with yellow embroidery thread doubled. Took ages!!

Sept 17, 2025

Been waiting for decent weather to take photos! It’s been a fortnight of shockingly bad rain :(

Instead sewed the fruit onto the tops of the cakes.

Sept 19, 2025

Finally managed to get some photos.

Weights:

Mini cheesecake v1 (strawberry drizzle):
White Patons: 85.62g / 79.63g / (6g)
Beige lace on cone: 22.67g / 18.15g / (4g)
48 Cherry: 49.12g? / 49.09g / (less than 1g)
(N/A) 37 Chocolate: 53.4g / n/a /()

Mini cheesecake v2 (chocolate drizzle):
01 Drops White: ?? / 43.67g / (7g?)
45 Bright Sand: 51.38g / 46.74g / (5g)
49 Coffee: 50.93g / 50.36g / (less than 1g)
Brown DMC 838: 2.03g / 1.34g / (1g)

Ombre mousse cake:
44 Flamingo Pink: 51.05g / 49.14g / (2g)
47 Cherry Blossom: 51.12g / 50.27g / (1g)
14 Light Pink: 51.72g / 50.96g / (1g)
32 Pearl: 51.58g / 50.71g / (1g)
45 Bright Sand: ??

Chocolate Pistachio cake:
53 Pistachio: 51.58g / / ()
45 Bright Sand: / / ()
49 Coffee: / / ()
50 Almond: out of stock
??37 Chocolate: 53g //()??

Strawberries (whole / half / wedge):
[[N/A Red Eldorado: 62.73g / 62.53g / (N/A)]]
Red Yeoman: 3.25g / 1.53g / (2g)
Red (South Maid): 94.09g / 93.78qg / (1g)
Peach: 16.09g / 15.52g / (1g)
White (cone): ??/ 0.64g / (less than 1g)

Raspberry:
48 Cherry: 51.74g / 49.12g / (2g)

Leaves:
119 Green: / 50.05g / (less than 1g)

Patterns available here:
Mini cheesecake with strawberries pattern:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4372931164/crochet-patter...

Ombré mousse cakes pattern here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4372886038/patisserie-cro...

Sept 21, 2025

Pattern Release post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DO3cj3ZiIsq/?igsh=MTBwbG9xOWJ...==