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Update on Recent Knitting

So even though I was otherwise distracted there were two projects I was able to complete recently.  Both were relatively simple and small, which seems to have suited my distracted mind.

First, the waffles are done.  As you know, I simply converted the waffle stitch into the "real" knitted thing.  But I thought they looked a bit sad on the plate all by themselves so I made two small breakfast sausage and three strawberries to go along with them.  (Yes, I know there's only two in the photo.  I made the third and packaged the entire meal up for shipping without taking a new photo.  I am like that sometimes.)  The sausage and strawberry patterns come from Susie Johns' 20  Knitted Fast Food, and her 20 Knitted Fruit respectively.  The sausage yarn came from Zellers just as they were closing down.  For my non-Canadian readers, Zellers will soon be replaced with Target stores from the U.S.  Sock yarn that is very slightly variegated in shades of red was just perfect for the berries.  They really did turn out nice and when I showed them to Paul, for a moment he thought they were real.  In the knitted food world that a total success.  (But then he didn't have his reading glasses on when I literally shoved them under his nose.)

I had an idea of stringing transparent beads together on brown thread to make the syrup, but time was running out so there's no syrup thus no need for butter on these waffles.  Perhaps the berries are a good exchange in calories as well.  (Really who needs butter and syrup anyway.  It's just too glutenous.)  Since I have another set to make, perhaps I'll conquer the beads, perhaps not, we'll see.

A yarny waffley breakfast 
Additionally, one of my work colleagues just had a baby boy on April 12.  I decided to make him and his wife a pair of booties for Jordan in a masculine tone, yet baby-esque.  The booties need to be the type that actually stay on baby's feet.  I remember both the handmade and store-bought booties that would slip off baby's busy little feet and one may or may not be able to locate them.   So my version of this footwear can be cinched to the leg with  grosgrain ribbon.  I like the little bit of pink in the ribbon, it adds a much needed extra baby colour.  The instructions for these came out of a new book I purchased at VKL called 60 More Quick Baby Knits from Cascade Yarns.


So there they are the two things I did finish in the last couple of weeks.  More about other things I started and haven't yet finished soon.  There's an announcement about to be made sometime this week so stay tuned.
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