If you are looking for a quick and suitable birthday gift box charm, learn how to crochet a Swiss roll cake keychain with this step-by-step tutorial for beginners. Achieving its spiral shape may look intimidating at first but luckily it mostly needs a simple flat work. Featuring a cute cherry top and colors that highlight affection, it is completely irresistible charm.
This post will provide you with stitch guides, tips, material list and abbreviation guide for your ease. You can follow through with the video tutorial in the end!
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Video Characteristics: The tutor explained crocheting it and then assembly. The On-screen pattern is just available.
Finished Size: 4.5mm
Video Timing: 20 Minutes
Best for:
Bakery or Cafe Decor: If you own or manage a bakery, cafe, or a dessert station, or just home kitchen utilize these crochet Swiss roll keychains as part of your décor.
For those who collect keychains, the crochet Swiss roll is a unique addition
A perfect graduation gift for someone who has just completed a patisserie course or culinary school.
Stitch Guides
Although stitches required for this project are basic, we consider it necessary for beginners to revise the stitches used either from below or from video:
ch: Chain (ch)
- Make a slip knot.
- Yarn over and pull through the loop already on the hook.
Single Crochet (sc)
- Insert the hook into the stitch.
- Yarn over (yo) and pull the yarn through the stitch (two loops on hook).
- Yarn over again and pull through both loops on the hook.
Decrease (dec)
- Often used to shape your project by reducing the number of stitches.
- Insert the hook into the next stitch, yarn over and pull through (two loops on hook).
- Insert the hook into the following stitch, yarn over and pull through (three loops on hook).
- Yarn over and draw through all three loops on the hook.
T: Half Double Crochet (hdc)
- Yarn over before inserting the hook into the stitch.
- Pull yarn through the stitch (three loops on hook).
- Yarn over and pull through all three loops on the hook.
F: Double Crochet (dc)
- Yarn over, then insert the hook into the stitch.
- Yarn over and pull through (three loops on hook).
- Yarn over and pull through two loops (two loops left on hook).
- Yarn over again and pull through the remaining two loops.
Other Techniques Required: Sewing and Color-Changes.
Crochet Swiss Roll Cake Keychain
The crochet Swiss roll keychain stands out as a special item. It is handmade means whose affection mass-produced gifts can't match. This sense of uniqueness conveys to the birthday person that thought and consideration went into selecting their present. Learn how to crochet this cute dessert keychain with this step-by-step tutorial:
Materials Needed
While teaching crocheting this Swiss roll cake keychain in the video, the tutor utilized and recommended the following crochet supplies:
- Milk Cotton Yarn (4ply): Bubblegum pink, Cherry red,
- Milky white, Red, Moss green
- Crochet hook size: 2.25 mm
- Fiberfill for stuffing
- Stitch markers
- Sewing needle and scissors
Abbreviations/Symbol:
The designer of this cake keychain used little less used abbreviations (some of which are adaptations from the chart symbols) whose scheme is provided below.
- R: round (Rnd)
- MR: magic ring (mr)
- X: single crochet (sc)
- V: increase two single crochet in a same stitch (inc)
- A: decrease two single crochet together (dec)
- T: half double crochet (hdc)
- F: double crochet (dc)
- ch: chain (ch)
- sl.: slip stitch (sl.st)
- st: stitch (st)
- (...)*: repeat instructions * times
- [...]: work in the same stitch as indicated = N: number of stitch(es) in a round
How-to Notes:
- This crochet Swiss roll keychain starts by crocheting two long fabrics one of which is a little larger than the other.
- Then the two pieces are rolled around each other.
- You will then crochet a little cherry and sew it on the top, too.
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