Giant Crocheted Cupcake

Anyone who lives in the Dundas Street West area of Toronto knows about OMG Baked Goodness and their amazing vegan cupcakes.  Baked with love by owner Lesley Mattina, the cupcakes are teeny bites of  heaven on earth.  I highly recommend the chocolate and red velvet varieties.  Delicious!  

Anyway, back in October, I approached Lesley about doing an installation in her bakery.  The idea, a project brief from my fourth-year design class, was to crochet a giant, stuffed cupcake, take it down to OMG and photograph it.

Not only was Lesley incredibly cool about letting me do this, but she actually offered to display the cupcake for me in her shop when it was finished.  It has now been down at OMG since early November 2011 and, according to Lesley, the response has been great!