So Where's the Beef?

Hamburger with the works sans onions

One of my readers asked today if I was going to make a hamburger to go with the fries. In actuality, I had knit the hamburger before the fries but have no photo of this mountain of knitting in action.

Here you see my creation has a kaiser bun, a non-quarter pounder burger, lettuce leaf, and slice of tomato. Seems now in retrospect I fashioned my burger after MacDonald's, the bun is bigger than the patty. Too bad it is so hard to see the satisfactory variation of brown in the beef. I looked for months to find that perfect yarn.

Again Susie Johns offered the pattern in 20 to Make: Knitted Fast Food, but I got a bit carried away with the size of the lettuce leaf and thought the tomato slice was absolutely necessary. (I like a fresh slice of tomato on my hamburger, doesn't everyone?)

Actually it looks better without everything staked together, but hey if you have it, flaunt it. So Kai did have a hamburger to eat with those fries, apparently the fries were much more interesting to him. I don't blame him for his decision though, how could he possibly get this hamburger into his mouth.

Thanks Libby for the question. The beef was already on and then off the grill, no, I mean, needles.

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