I’ve been making these cute crochet versions of mushrooms, with secret pouches in the stem, for many years now and after seeing so many morels this season I decided to come up with a quick tutorial!

These cuties are great for storing things like chapstick, pocket money, lighters, or other trinkets inside the hollow stem. They also make great gifts for the woodland mushroom lover

This project is done in freeform crochet style, meaning that I add random increases, decreases, height changes (from single crochet to half-double or double), and bobbles to make the texture gnarly and womply like a real morel. In the tutorial I’ll give the basic structure of the pattern and you can freestyle all the rest!