Flagel Knitting Files

Recently friends sent me this photo:  Really French French Fries  The photo came with this note:  "Something to keep your needles busy; found this online (haphazardly) and thought you may get a kick out of it" .  (Don't know what you two were searching for when you stumbled onto this, but thanks for sharing.)  Kick out of it; yes, yes, yes, I had to investigate.  These fries are actually crocheted and the details are what make them so special.  I had to find out who did this and how. Thank goodness for Google and an ability to search images that match a simple phrase of "knitted French, French fries".  Within seconds I found the image on Pinterest and could follow it back to its source. These fries belongs to  Kate Jenkins  from the UK.  She lists her work as crochet art.  In December she took her French French fries and added either reindeer horns to some and Santa hats with beards to others for the holiday season  You have to check out her

Yes, yes I know it has been a while.  I have this thing called work and it sometimes distracts me, then I have holidays or vacations and they, too, distract me.  But I am now back and have a few things I've completed while we were apart. Remember U900 with Rabbit U and Bear 900?  It was way back in January of this year.  If you don't quite remember, here's a reminder U900  Ukulele They have these wonderful videos you can watch, just search for U900 and be sure to add ukulele or you'll be looking at phones.  (Just for a quick aside, I visited one of my sons recently and he was humming a couple of their songs.  He seemed pleased he remembered the songs associated with these little guys.  I have such a weird influence on my boys/men!  The family that watches videos together stay together I guess.) At any rate after much working to achieve articulated arms (pipe cleaners work well for this) and several failed attempts to cause the legs to support the body (an id