Peep Peep Peep
Last weekend, I set out to design something for “Easter/spring”, as it states on my weekend to-do list. Looking around the apartment, I have noticed a plethora of…PEEPS! Not just the chick variety, but the bunnies as well in marshmallow, stuffed, illustrated, and plastic forms. A few weeks ago, my parents sent me the new green marshmallow peeps, and then a week or so later, my friends Lisa and Elena did the same. They also made a card illustrating the poor peeps inside a microwave, a favorite pastime of mine in college. There is a flickr pool called The Peeps-tastic! that I will be submitting some photos to shortly.
It frightens me slightly that when I search for “peeps” “microwave” and “experiment” on Google that there are 127,000 hits. They even have a Wikipedia entry! No surprise there, I guess. The official website is pretty cute as well, and I feel honored to know that a college friend’s friend will inherit the Peeps company, Just Born. I am so close to the Peeps heiress! Their site has some more “friendly” things you can do with Peeps, like make a topiary or dip them in chocolate. Hmm…blowing them up in the microwave or killing them in a variety of ways is probably more fun.
Anyway, I decided to design a bunny, since the chick is more 3-D than the bunny and therefore more difficult for my only 3 month old experience with crochet. Perhaps I’ll save that attempt for next year. I actually figured out the design after a few tries of different crochet stitches, and I’m really happy with how they turned out. At first, the little guys were orphans, but I made them a giant bunny parental figure. I added in some “real” green peep chicks to diversify the group:
I am selling these in my Etsy store in the form of stuffed softies and pins or magnets. I also sell my original patterns for the whole family. Hopefully the real Peeps family won’t come knockin’ to tell me I’m stealing their precious marshmallow confection idea; I will have to call up my friend of the Peeps family and seek help! They couldn’t arrest a Peeps lover, could they???
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
now these are my kind of peeps! nice work.
March 22nd, 2007 at 5:19 pm
hehe thanks!
March 22nd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Hi Alicia,
I’m an “alicia” too and I crochet. Love, love love your peeps!
Alicia VS
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 am
[...] Alicia Kachmar has a cute Easter post on these cute crochet marshmallow-looking peeps she made! Alicia writes,”They’re are pins/magnets that are accurate in size, slightly bigger stuffed versions, and a big pink mother marshamllow bunny.” Get them at her etsy store. Link. [...]
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Oooh, Peeps! My brother and I always buy them for my mom and pre-stale them for her. I always get the traditional chicks, but my bubba goes way out on that trend-setting limb and gets the bunnies. Then you must poke holes in the plastic with a fork and wait. And wait. Depending on how far away your parental units live, you mail them so that they’ll arrive with a nice crunchy crust. Mom loves ‘em that way–I’ll pass on them, fresh or stale–give me the malted milk robin’s eggs!
April 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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March 17th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
hey your post is from a while ago now, but I figured I’d post this antway i am not doing nething. If u make 2 of the first ones you can wip stich them together n thye then become 3D also. I actually came up with a pattern myself last year for these and they look similar so cute good job!
March 17th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
wow skipped over the part were u did that, got alittle adhd going on here I feel silly now sorry
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