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Berries and Friends

Within the last day or so a total of four strawberries have been knit with a fifth close to completion.  The best part is as I knit away on these things Miss M is foremost on my mind.  And keeping her in mind reminds me the construction has to be strong enough to withstand the type of use/abuse a toddler will give them.  The tiny little seeds on the berries could have been beads, I own plenty in the right rich, red colour.  But beads are too easily pulled from their moorings on knitted berries, so yellow yarn embroidered in random locations has been used instead and it will survive much better.
For perspective these four are in the top of a small peanut butter jar.

But after a few day of knitting only the berries, I needed something different to work on.  A banana is another recognizable fruit that is also relatively easy to duplicate.  Unlike the berries that are knit on SP needles and then sewn together, the banana itself is knit in the round using DP needles.  This is what I have thus far.

Due to the way it is constructed one stuffs it as one goes.  Thus its shape is easy to see.

As for the banana skin, made with SP needles, it is knit flat and requires a zipper.  I know there are two very short, very yellow zippers tucked away somewhere in my crafting room.  Today those zippers must be located so I can finish up at least one banana, if not both over the weekend.  (These small projects are so much fun; it is gratifying to start and complete something in a day.  Now I remember why I liked making them so much.)

This skin is 75% complete
It is predicted to be a rainy weekend, there is both college and professional football to watch on TV, my Packers are on Sunday Night Football (Go, Badgers and the Pack!)  Odds are good several items of fruit can be cranked out in the next couple of day.  I love it when things work out and get finished on time.

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