Free Pattern: Mushroom

Hello my lovely readers!
Today I am going to give away my first free pattern. I am going to assume you already have the basic crochet knowledge, but if you don't there are many references online you can check out.
Anyway here we go.
Our first free pattern is a mushroom:

Mushroom

Dark brown and beige yarn (I used acrylic worsted weight yarn)
Size F hook (or size to get the right gauge)
Polyfil stuffing
Unless it says otherwise, always crochet in both loops

Row 1 - With dark brown yarn, make 6 sc in magic ring. Place st marker in the last st (6)
Row 2 - (Inc, sc) across (9)
Row 3 - (Inc, 2 sc) across (12)
Row 4 - (Inc, 3 sc) across (15)
Row 5 - (Inc, 4 sc) across (18)
Row 6 - (Inc, 5 sc) across (21)
Row 7 - (Inc, 6 sc) across (24)
Row 8 - In back loops only (Dec, sc) across (16)
Row 9 - Dec across (8) Stuff with polyfil
Row 10 - Break off yarn and sew shut
Row 11 - With beige yarn, pick up 12 st around and under cap to start stem. Place st marker in last st (12)
Row 12 ~ 14 - Crochet in a round. Sc across. Stuff mushroom (12)
Row 15 - In back loops only, (Dec, sc) across (4)
Row 16 - Break off yarn and sew shut

Yay mushroom!!
I hope this makes sense. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions.
I did another variation using red yarn and white felt circles:
Enjoy! Thanks for reading :)
XOXO Cori

Busy busy busy

Sorry I've been out of commission lately. I didn't sell as much as I would have liked to at the Albuquerque Comic Expo, but my friends at In Case Of Attack did pretty well.
I did get a commission from it, though -
Zombie Batman is awesome.
I attended a bachelorette party for my cousin-in-law, made 120 cupcakes for the happy couple, and attended their lovely wedding. I even made my husband a mustache so he would fit in with the groom -I also sold a zombie thanks to my exhibit at the Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys.
Anyway, I have lots of ideas floating around in my brain and am trying desperately to finish up some commissions so that I don't lose that inspiration.
But I have an exciting (well, I think it's exciting) announcement to make. I have decided that I am going to start selling patterns (assuming I can make them easy for others to understand) and also do some freebies. While the zombie pattern is probably too hard for anyone else but me to understand since I've made up a lot of the stitches for the pattern, I plan on doing a lot of other things.
So, stay tuned and hopefully I can get my first free pattern out soon and get a lot more accomplished to share.
Thanks for reading!

Small update

I got a moment and thought I would send a small update.
I'm finally done with my receptionist job and can focus on my store full time. Yay!!
I ended up getting two commissions from the Horror Convention. The first request was a zombie armadillo:

The second was a zombie family:
The animals turned out really cute and I'm going to have to make more for the shop :)
The hardest part, I think, will be keeping myself on a schedule and not getting burned out on making zombies. But I have ideas for non-zombie related items ;)
But last Friday I sold two zombies. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Time to get back to work,
Cori