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Fry-up 


It's ugly, but i want one. i just can't bring myself to knit it. 

A friend of a friend directed me to this pattern

fry-up

The fry up. it totally fascinates me. Wearable knitted food! I instantly knew that i had to have one. I also knew that i was not going to spend more than $5 to make it. That meant amassing some acrylic yarn, which i was pretty successful at.

i tried to follow the pattern for the purse and started on a pair of long, straight #8 needles. Then i realized that there was no way 153 stitches were going to fit. so i went out and got a really long set of #8 circulars to do the job. i think that i decided it was supposed to be knit flat, and that i would be knitting some weird pie-wedge shaped thing that could be easily shaped into a circle (there is one point where the directions say to join up the seam). i must have started over 3 times. The first time, i dropped a stitch on the third row and lost control. The second time i had twisted stitches all over the place which really stood out in the crappy acrylic fabric. i have blocked out why i had to start over again.



There she is. the current state of the fry up. I think there are about 4 rows. I hate it now. i will probably never finish it. I don't even want to take the needles out of it because i don't want to deal with it.

Does anyone know of someone that has completed one of these? 

Posted: Fri - August 27, 2004 at 01:24 PM           |

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