Monday, April 22, 2013

A Little Something Different

For more than a year, I have been completely enamoured with this pattern designer named Susie Johns who has a series of books on knitting fruit and vegetables.

I am not making this up.  Either the books, or my long-standing infatuation with the idea of knitting food.  A few weeks ago, extremely tired of socks, I decided to order both books for myself.  The vegetable book arrived first, and I immediately bought the yarn to knit some peas:


Cute, right?  I made three peas/pea pods in just a couple of hours (the peas are stuffed with beads purchased at a local craft store) and can tell you I don't have any left.  Everyone I have showed them to has been completely dazzled by them and did not refuse the gift.  The first one went to my goddaughter E, the two in the photo above went to my good friend Stella Caroline yesterday.  She has small children, though, so I'm thinking about making another set and stuffing them with fiberfill, rather than beads, just in case.  I am also looking forward to making her some other vegetables - perhaps a leek or an eggplant or my personal favorite, corn.

There is also has a knitted alien book by a different designer, Fiona Macdonald.  That is less symbiotic than my knitting/gardening connection, but I do adore Halloween......

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