She’s here, she’s finally here! Meet darling little Berry, the gorgeously sweet juicy little fruit fairy crochet pattern.
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A fruit fairy is very like a flower fairy but they’re a bit more shy so we don’t see them around much. Berry here, however, is quite the extrovert who loves seeing people out exploring when she tends the wild raspberries. She’s a very cheery wee fairy who loves playing in my Raspberry bushes too and posing for photos!
She loves Raspberries (of course) and is a huuuuge fan of chocolate cake. Who knew fairies like cake too huh? Have you ever tried chocolate cake with raspberries? It’s amazing!
Her pattern took such a long time to get published, life kept getting in the way so it felt like a huge achievement to finally release her for you. My wonderful testers had great fun making her and were delighted to help me ensure the pattern is error free and easy to follow.
She’s fun and pretty easy to make, advanced beginners with experience of common stitches should manage her ok. But as always I am here to help if you run into difficulty.
Her pattern is in UK terms with US shown in brackets in the abbreviations and is available to buy on Ravelry (click the button below).
Made using DK #3 weight acrylic yarn she measures approx 7″. You can use any yarn to make her though, and it doesn’t need to be acrylic. You may need to adjust hook size accordingly and note she’ll be a bit bigger if using #4 weight or smaller with a #2 weight.
Here’s what you’ll need to make her:
Materials
Size 2.5mm (C) and 3mm (D) crochet hooks. I use ergonomic hooks as they’re so much more comfortable to use. If you ever have pain from crocheting consider changing your hooks, you’ll be amazed at the difference if you’re using the standard straight metal or plastic type.
Locking Stitch marker to mark the beginning of the round
DK acrylic yarn – suggested Stylecraft Special DK. Skin colour of your choice or perhaps green for skin. White for her skirt (Raspberry flowers are white). Berry-like colours are Pomegranate (like mine), Raspberry (not as bright and not that raspberry-like to be honest), Boysenberry (a wee bit darker and a bit more purple, I love this colour). And Meadow for the leaf shaped wings.
Black embroidery cotton for lashes (very small amount) and eyes if you want to embroider them.
Pink or red embroidery cotton for mouth (very small amount)
Sparkly or a darker green yarn, I used for edging and embroidering leaf veins on the wings. A small amount needed, you may have some scrap yarn that will do.
Yarn/embroidery needle
Scissors (sharp embroidery scissors are great)
Toy Stuffing (only a couple of handfuls needed)
Safety eyes 8mm or 9mm (optional)
Abbreviations used:
MR – Magic ring (adjustable ring)
FO – Fasten off
Slst – slip stitch (US sl st)
Sts – stitches
Dc – double crochet (US sc)
Htr – half treble (US hdc)
Tr – treble (US dc)
Dtr – double treble (US trc)
Ttr – Triple treble (US dtc)
FLO – Front loop only
BLO – back loop only
Dctog – Double crochet 2 stitches in 1 (decrease) (US Trtog)
Picot – ch 3 and slp st into top of treble to create a little point
Special Stitch – HtrBB Half Treble Blackberry (HdcBB Half Double crochet Blackberry US) and is fully explained in the pattern.
If you love Fairies check out Calendula too, she’s gorgeous! And you can find all my crochet patterns (including lots of free patterns) on my Patterns Page.
Remember to tag me if you make her, I’d love to see her! Why not join my Facebook Group to show her there too. I’d love to see you there. Love Jan xx
Your write-up is cute but Berry is cuter!
Thank you