More Knitted Fast Food

Knitting is my job now; I spend hours at it per day. It serves a therapeutic, creative and inspiring activity for me. This last week while I was not writing, I knit relatively mindless items. Additionally I decided to focus on small projects that kept Miss M on the forefront of my mind.

Here´s the results.

A BBQ hotdog with a mustard drizzle, a burger on a sesame seed bun with lettuce, ketchup and mustard and finally a fried sunny side up egg with two strips of bacon. Just as they have been in the past, these are made from 20 to Make--Knitted Fast Food by Susie John's. These small items are perfect for using up scraps of yarns. And I happily mixed wool with cotton and acrylic yarns. Under normal circumstances one would never mix different fiber types, but this food will not be blocked, cannot really be washed or dry cleaned so mixing fibers will work.

The edge of the egg is crocheted with the dark bit added to help it really look fried

There is a lettuce leaf on the burger with a squirt of mustard and ketchup

I added the grill marks onto the hotdog

The fun part of knitting these is I think Miss M will really enjoy playing with this fake food. It was a great way to spend the week, focusing on the two year old in my life.

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