Sometimes I struggle to figure out what kind of gift to give friends for special occasions. Now that I am an active crafter my ability to find something special that might also be interesting has improved. Here's a birthday gift I recently gave Karen to ensure she would never run out of fruit to look at: Amirugumi Fruit Bowl All the fruit is crocheted and not knitted; why you might ask? Because crocheting is more conducive to making spherical shapes than knitting. A single crochet stitch is used almost exclusively to make amigurumi , a Japanese crocheting technique, used to create small toys . I followed a free pattern for the banana , and added the little dark brown marks a banana gets when it matures, and the red delicious apple with its brown stem and green leaf attached. The rest of the fruit bowl was made up/designed on my own. Under the grapes is a lemon with the tiny bumps on each end. The o...
Getting it together one stitch at a time.