My obsession with knitting food really took off in early 2010. I found a 9-page pattern booklet call Knitted Yummies from StitchinKitsch.com . It was the piece of cake that was of real interest to me. My finishing skills needed a boost so quickly knitting these small projects and then stitching them together would help me. My first piece of cake (poc) was done exactly as the directions said including the chocolate cake and pink frosting colours. After making a few I decided I didn't like having to sew the small bead of "frosting" on the top of the cake after the fact, so I just knit it in as I went along. Additionally I found it possible to attach the top and bottom to the side frosting of the cake without extra hand work. (So even though I wanted to improve my finishing skills it appears I was doing everything I could to avoid doing too much of it. What a shock.) One of the first with picot edging I also...
Getting it together one stitch at a time.