Flagel Knitting Files

As a kid I ate my fair share of bologna sandwichs.  However, as an adult I decided to not include it in my diet.  But what fun to knit one and be able to enjoy it that way.  Yup it was another of  Susie Johns Fast Food patterns . My bologna & cheese on whole wheat I love the yarn used to make the whole wheat or maybe it's multi-grain bread.  It was found at  Yoko Yaya 123, a dollar store located in the International Village Mall in Vancouver.    It has speckles of light and dark beige as well as yellow, and the darker crust looks pretty realistic to me.  I also found the right material to stuff the slices so that it even feels like real bread.  (It's a solid packing material, something used between plates.) It was the pink for the bologna that was difficult to get just right.  In my stash I had all these choices: My pink stash At first glance you might say any of these should probably work.  I thought that way...

Kai got an entire meal when he received the burger and fries.  (I wanted him to feel as if I knew what a full meal would include.)  There was a dessert included, a slice of watermelon. A slice of a not-at-all seedless melon The pattern came from Susie Johns: 20 to Make Knitted Fruit .  I thought at first glance it might be a challenging fruit to make, but once I started I found it was quite easy.  This slice is made in one piece, folded in half and then sewed up along the white rind.  The seeds are simply crocheted chain stitches embroidered on after the fruit is stuffed. For this one I didn't follow the instructions as written first.  I used the stockinette stitch on the outside as you see here.  When I make another, and we both know I will, I'll follow the pattern as it is written and reverse it with the purl side on the outside.  It will be more convincingly melon-like if I do.  Two colours of green were used to get a b...

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...

Apple core Recently I obtained another pattern book for knitting food.  I had it sent to my permanent address in the States, specifically my parents home.  This means they got it before I did and that my mom enjoyed looking through it before I got there.  The apple core really caught her eye.  Who would ever think of knitting an apple core?   Susie Johns, in  20 to Make:  Knitted Fruit ,  of course! I couldn't wait to stitch one up.  The picture above shows my first attempt.  (When I make another, because one knitted apple core is never enough, I'll use red yarn instead of green for the apple peel.  Although this green is appropriate for a Granny Smith, I think the Red Delicious will look even better.) Banana skin I also knit a banana, both the banana insides and the skin, but the entire tale of that adventure deserves its own post.   I mentioned to my Mom that I'd knit an apple core and banana skin ...

Hamburger with the works sans onions One of my readers asked today if I was going to make a hamburger to go with the fries.  In actuality, I had knit the hamburger before the fries but have no photo of this mountain of knitting in action. Here you see my creation has a kaiser bun, a non-quarter pounder burger, lettuce leaf, and slice of tomato. Seems now in retrospect I fashioned my burger after MacDonald's, the bun is bigger than the patty.  Too bad it is so hard to see the satisfactory variation of brown in the beef.  I looked for months to find that perfect yarn. Again Susie Johns offered the pattern in 20 to Make:  Knitted Fast Food , but I got a bit carried away with the size of the lettuce leaf and thought the tomato slice was absolutely necessary.  (I like a fresh slice of tomato on my hamburger, doesn't everyone?) Actually it looks better without everything staked together, but hey if you have it, flaunt it.  So Kai did have a hamburger to...

I have plenty of stash, most very small amounts of yarn.  It is tough to figure out what to do with all these tiny amounts and frankly I'm too cheap to throw them out.  My stash of leftovers has grown to an impressive size.  So when someone wished that she could get something "artistic" regarding donuts, I offered to knit her a couple.  Using Susie Johns', 20 to Make:  Knitted Fast Food   I found a way to cut my stash and make someone happy, hopefully. After knitting two donuts and sending them along I decided it might be fun to see what variations I could develop.  The donut to the right above was designed around one with sprinkles now available from Tim Horton's.  I added plastic with yarn on another to get a glazed look.  Tiny white beads were added to others to make them appear sugared.  Before I knew it one donut became ten. So needing a container I got a clean donut box and filled it.  Sin...