Remember a million years ago when I crocheted an egg? Sure you do. Well, the bizarre act of creating a food item out of yarn awakened a superpower inside me that I didn't even know was there. The longer I sat and looked at that egg, the more I thought, "Huh. I wonder what other kinds of food would look good when knitted? What would go with an egg? How about other breakfast foods?" This is really what goes on in my mind -- I'm terribly sorry to have to expose you to that kind of ridiculously useless genius.
So I sat down and made a piece of bread. And some fried eggs. And some bacon. By then I had started to go on the internet to look for free patterns for other kinds of food, and simultaneously decided that if I was going to make all this food, I better have a use for it. This is where my niece comes in handy. Her second birthday was coming up in a few months, and what two-year-old wouldn't want a sackful of pretend food? No two-year-old wouldn't want a sackful of pretend food, that's who. A mission was born.
I had so much damn fun knitting food that when her birthday approached, I was so elbow deep in donuts and broccoli that I had to push the gift off until Christmas. Before I sent it all off for Santa to deliver, I took some photos of the finished products. Here they are!
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