Jellied or Whole Cranberry Sauce?
Why, jellied of course! This year marks my first Thanksgiving not travelling home to Pittsburgh; I will be staying on in Brooklyn and my parents will be coming to us! Even though it breaks tradition, I’m slightly relieved to not be in any way involved with Thanksgiving travel, airports, delays, traffic, etc. With that, it also marks the first time I will be cooking and assembling some sort of Thanksgiving dinner. I’m scared and excited! I will have some help, but I prefer to toil in the kitchen myself, schedule the timing of dishes, and generally have the apartment to myself. While I cook elaborate dinners semi-regularly, I have never stuffed a turkey, let alone know anything about cooking one. I’ve also never been big on, dare I say it, Thanksgiving food, except for pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes. So, I think I’m going to take some creative liberties with the dishes, like say, making cubed spiced sweet potato nuggets or whipping up some sweet potato chili.
Wouldn’t it be great if I could crochet the entire meal right now and have a non-edible feast instead? Ok, it would be cute, but not great. There is a large majority of my extended family that prefers jellied cranberry sauce out of the can to the whole berry variety. My grandma always serves both kinds, since among 40+ people, there are bound to be differences in tastes. My sister and I love the jellied variety, the sound of it coming out of the can, the lines on the side that scream “I am processed and came out of a can!”, and the general look of it sitting on a small plate. And thus, I hereby give you a crocheted jellied cranberry sauce that has the identical lines and fits into a can, with the added bonus of a smiling face.
Wouldn’t you love to make one for your Thanksgiving table?!? I am listing the pattern below, and also selling the made version in my Etsy shop (it will be shipped priority at no extra cost so that it arrives in time!)
You will need:
G hook
cranberry-colored yarn
stuffing
2 beads
black embroidery thread
Ch 2 and make 5sc in 2nd ch from hook. Join.
Ch1; 2sc in each. (10)
2sc, sc around. (15)
2sc, sc, sc around (20)
2sc, sc, sc, sc around (25)
Sc around for 3 rounds.
Embroider eyes and a mouth now and weave in all ends.
Sc into back/outer loop for approximately 8 rounds (to make the lines)
Sc around for 3 rounds.
Stuff the little guy!
Dec every fourth st.
Dec every third st.
Dec every other st.
Dec every st until closes.
Put ‘im on a plate and serve! Well, don’t eat him! Admire him, laugh, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
November 15th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
That is so wonderful and funny. Love the little lines on the side.
Being that my family is just the three of us, and that we live in Singapore where Thanksgiving is not really celebrated, this year we are going to Tony Roma’s for dinner. How traditional is that? (not). But at least I am getting out of making the turkey! Phew!
Enjoy your family get together.
November 17th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Jellied rules! I too take utter delight in that phowmp sound as it gracelessly slide out of the can. I find the idea of spiced sweet potato nuggets highly intruguing and tasty. Would these mysterious “spices” be like cinnamon or something more along the lines of like chili powder to be really different?
November 18th, 2007 at 10:16 am
hehe. Oh that sound…. Spiced like cinnamon and nutmeg. They are tasty!
November 19th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
This is so cute!
November 19th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Thanks!
November 20th, 2007 at 6:21 am
My dad and would bring our own jellied cranberry sauce (and a can opener) when we used to eat thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant. We are serious jellied cranberry enthusiasts. I would love to make this for our thanksgiving dinner! And I JUST learned how to crochet!!
November 20th, 2007 at 9:16 am
hee hee!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I’m going to make this! Maybe store it in a clean cranberry sauce can with a good label or make my own stylized label. I’m going to make mine a few slices short. Make individual sliced smileys to display next to it. lol
November 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am
@Chele, awesome! Post a link to pictures if you have a photo account or blog!
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:21 am
I love your cranberry sauce. I have a nephew for which Thanksgiving is not complete without cranberry sauce. So I had to make one for him. I even sliced it. You can see a picture at on my blog
December 4th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Oh so cute, Robin!
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