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What's for Breakfast?

Bacon and an egg
What does one do with lots of knitted food?  I've given some to my nephew's two little girls.  His wife runs childcare out of their home, and I thought the kids would enjoy having a full array of goodies.  So they have a hot dog, hamburger, fries, bologna and cheese sandwich on whole wheat, fries, piece of cake, cupcake etc. (They will all be revealed in time.)  Almost all were made using Susie Johns' 20 to Make:  Knitted Fast Food.

Here's breakfast: an egg, sunny side up, and a piece of bacon.  The most difficult task in this project was finding the right colour of red for the bacon.  Once I succeeded there the rest was simple.  The yolk of the egg is stuffed with a bit of fiberfill, backed with cardboard and sewn to the white.

I especially like to eat my morning eggs off a red plate and this colour helped my knitted egg as well, I think. Making this up saved me from having to clean the spatters on the stove too!
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  1. liesl23 October 2011 at 19:43

    Jan - I love this! The bacon and egg and also the fact you are a blogger too and so creatively skilled! Bet your great-nieces love to play eat them!

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  2. JFlag23 October 2011 at 19:48

    Glad you like it. Thanks for checking in on my little personal diary.

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