Intriguing E-mail Sent by Friends

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 blog and gallery (click on her name above or the link below).  Just to whet your appetite, look at her anchovies in a can:



Canned Anchovies

  Or how about her butterflies:





Kate Jenkins' Butterflies

  This Kate Jenkins' work is so incredible.  The sequins are what add all the silvery sheen to the anchovies and makes the wings of the butterflies sparkle.  You must check out her work.  Her website says she created items for Marc Jacobs and Donna Karan but ultimately decided to work for herself.  No patterns were available but she does sell these handmade items.  I have no idea how much her work might cost, but I do know I would not be able to recreate these on my own. Kate shares her photos but nothing more, without patterns I would not be able to come close to creating this perfection.


John and Candy, thanks so much for sending me the photo.  My needles probably won't be flying, but this image got my mind racing and that's just about as good as far as I'm concerned.