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Hot Diggity Dog

My first, which makes it special.
This was the first project I made from Susie Johns' 20 to Make: Knitted Fast Food. Truth be known it was the hot dog that attracted me to the book. I love the European style bun (not quite positioned properly here) with the darker crust and the lighter interior.

It was the colour of the hot dog that was so exciting to find. I picked up this yarn at the local Daiso store for $1, a steal to be sure. ( Hey, I'm  knitting a hot dog here not a sweater, any port in the storm would do.)
Susie's hot dog colour
There is this colour, the one Susie used for her hot dog.  But to me this just wasn't right. The hot dog doesn't include any red meat. Perhaps it works if you're eating/knitting a chicken or turkey or who knows what type of hot dog. So I said, no to this option.
So many options, and I'm clueless
Then there is all of this, well not really the purple/mauve or the dark brown, but all the rest of them. There is also potentials in pink but I ruled all of them out. (More about pinks in the bologna discussion to come.) When I was shopping I found all or some of these and struggled to remember what a real hot dog looked like.  I got confused. (I'm not fond of them because with two boys, I ate enough hot dogs in a 10 year span of the 1980s to last for the rest of my life.) After searching for some time I settled with an all beef option. The red and dark brown combination worked, I think. Who wouldn't like to have this appealing model?

Then there was the tricky maneuver of stuffing the hot dog. Since this was my first, I actually followed the instructions which suggest adding the polyfill once the cylinder was complete. It didn't turn out as smooth and consistent as I wanted. Luckily the mustard covers some of this problem and the bun the rest. So when I made the next one I filled it as I knit, which in the end turned out to be much more successful.

As I mentioned in an earlier post this hot dog has joined the hamburger and fries at my grand-nieces' home. Thanks for following me in this study in the red-tawny shade of brown.
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  1. Frozen Tundra25 October 2011 at 09:54

    here it is: http://scienceline.org/2008/05/physics-fox-knitting/ (The knitting professor)

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  2. JFlag25 October 2011 at 12:11

    Thanks, Frozen Tundra--The Knitting Professor. The thought of adding mathematics to a craft is a rather unique one for me. I do this to relax and the words mathematics and relax don't really come together in my world. However the book, Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects, looks intriguing. I appreciate the tip and have the book on hold at my local library.

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