Crochet Ribbon Candy How-To
I have been burning the midnight oil to ready my shop for the holidays, finally tackling some craft “to-do’s” by adding new crochet designs and owl soap scents. I crocheted some ribbon candy a year or so ago, but wasn’t happy with the finished look. Ever since I started working on the crochet cheese commission, I have begun to pay more attention to yarn texture, instead of just trying to perfect the design by tweaking the actual pattern and playing around with stitches. So, with a mottled cheese, I chose mottled or fuzzy yarn; for waxy-covered cheeses, I chose shiny yarn, and so on. It isn’t just about getting the color and shape right, especially when it comes to recreating food products. So, what I discovered about the ribbon candy design is that I was using plain-old acrylic yarn, which makes for chunky, not-shiny ribbon candy. Ribbon candy is, of course, smooth, shiny, almost elegant.
Anyway, I stocked up on Caron Simply Soft yarns, which are shiny and thinner than most acrylic worsted weight yarns. With little white ribbons (!), these make pretty sweet (!) holiday ornaments. Free crochet pattern is after the jump.
There are three different patterns for the three ribbon candies seen here to get the different color schemes.
Supplies
Caron yarn in pink, red and white
F hook
White 1/4 inch ribbon
Pink and white ribbon candy:
With pink yarn, ch 74 and sc for five rows, always making a ch 1 turn at the beginning of each row. Leaving a long tail, snip pink and join white. With white, sl into each stitch across. Finish off. With white yarn again, join at the beginning of the pink free loops on the other side. Sl across and finish off. (Skip ahead to Assembling).
Red and white ribbon candy:
With red yarn, ch 74 and sc for 1 row. Leave red yarn and join white. Sc across with white for one row and snip. Pick up red on the other side and sc for 3 more rows. Finish off, leaving a long tail. Join white and sl into each stitch across. With white yarn again, join at the beginning of the red free loops on the other side. Sl across and finish off. (Skip ahead to Assembling).
Pink, red and white ribbon candy:
With white yarn, ch 74 and sc for 1 row. Leave white yarn and join red. Sc across with red for one row and snip. Pick up white on the other side and sc for 3 more rows. Finish off, leaving a long tail. Join pink and sl into each stitch across.
Assembling
Cut a 9-inch piece of white ribbon. Laying the long crocheted rectangle flat, sl stitched edges facing down, tie ribbon around a center stitch, being careful not to let it show through to the right side. Then insert the loop made through the crocheted rectangle so that it pops over to the right side. Begin folding into 1 1/4 inch pieces, so that you make about five folds and ribbon candy is about 2 inches long. Hold in place and with long yarn tail, sew through folds a couple of times until it stays in place on its own. Knot yarn on inside of a fold and tuck away.
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December 21st, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this pattern!! I was perusing your Etsy shop and saw the ornament and fell in love — I was aghast that you didn’t have the pattern posted. Then I thought to check here, and YAY!!! This will make a nice companion to the Itty-Bitty hat & mittens and old-fashioned bulbs/balls. I’m going to have some very happy friends this Christmas. 🙂
February 27th, 2010 at 12:00 am
I absolutely LOVE this pattern. I found it via a wonderful accident. When I was a little girl my grandmother used to hang real ribbon candies on the Christmas tree. She would also save all the tin windings off of the coffee cans all year long. Taking off the winding key she would stretch them out into a silver spiral, bend over the end, put a thread through it and hang it on the tree. They were silver on one side and blue on the other. I am now 62 and your wonderful pattern brought back a flood of those old memories. Thank you. 🙂
PS. I’m going to make some only I’m going to try to let them be looseer, not so bunched up. I think that that would make them look more real. Tie them loosely with a little ribbon bow at the bottom. For Grandma.
March 29th, 2010 at 9:40 am
this is such a cute pattern but i need a printer friendly version could you please tell me how to do that? Thanks in asvance
March 29th, 2010 at 9:43 am
ATTENTION AMY B. where did you get the pattern for the hat&mittens and old fashion balls/bulbs? were they here someplace? tia grandmahotstuff5@msn.com
April 27th, 2010 at 7:46 am
I think this is a great pattern. I’m already thinking of all the occasions I can use it for thank you
October 11th, 2010 at 11:20 am
These are so cute. Thank you for sharing the pattern. I like the choice of yarn
it is shimmery and adds to the dimension of the beloved ribbon candies..
November 30th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Thanks for sharing this. Cannot wait to try some for package toppers.
December 6th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
This is a wonderful pattern that can be adaoted for plastic canvas as well, with endless possibilites! Be sure you use the very flexible plastic canvas so you get a more realistic look when shaping the curves of the candy.
February 25th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Could you please explain how to assemble. I am new at crocheting so a lot is new to me.
I fell in love with the ribbon candy pattern and thought it would be really cute to have in a Christmas bowl.
Thank you
Judy
November 8th, 2012 at 2:34 am
These are so sweet! I will be making several different colors for my tree. Thanks for sharing the pattern!
November 25th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Hi,
I also love this ribbon candy ornament. Could you go over the assembly in more detail because like Judy above I’m new to crocheting and need a little extra help.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea,
Tracy White
December 16th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Adorable.. I must try these, they bring back many memories. Thank you for posting the pattern.
December 23rd, 2012 at 11:10 am
Love these. I also a crochet pattern for a Christmas tree made similar to these, but can’t find the pattern. Can anyone help?
December 26th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
The ribbon candy pattern takes me back when I was young. I was happy to see the pattern.
December 12th, 2014 at 10:54 am
will you please make a video on the construction part???? I have to make these but I don’t follow that part!!! 🙁
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April 10th, 2015 at 1:25 am
Thank you for the pattern.I plan on making these and giving them to family Each year I give about a dozen new ornaments to my family.They will really enjoy these beauty’s. I can’t wait to get started. Thnak you again.
September 24th, 2015 at 11:59 pm
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