I guess I’ve got food-related knitting on the brain lately! After sharing the pretzel and macaron pillows the other day, here’s another fun food knitting project for you.
Play with your food and then set the table with it, with help from the Breakfast of Champions set from Knit Picks. Designed by Joyce Fassbender, this three-piece set includes a fried egg placemat, a napkin that’s a piece of toast complete with a pat of butter, and an orange slice-inspired cup cozy.
The set is rated as being for intermediate knitters and uses sport weight cotton blend yarn (Knit Picks Shine Sport, to be precise).
I say you get to play with your food on this one because each component of the project uses different skills, so you can learn something new or just use some different techniques you might not need every day.
For example the egg is worked in the round from the center out, requiring even increases at intervals to ensure it stays round. The napkin has a bit of intarsia around the edges (a little hard to see in the photo) that makes the crust of the bread, and it looks like the butter is stitched separately and sewn on. It might be fun to add a bit of jam instead of butter if you’re making a set, so each person in the family can have their own color or what they like best on their toast.
The coffee cup cozy uses a bit of stranded knitting to make the orange slices.
These patterns are just so cute and I think they’d bring just the amount of whimsy you need to get through a tough morning. You can grab the free pattern on Knit Picks’ website, or the pattern is also available as part of their Keeping Home ebook, which includes a bunch of sets of projects for the home.
[Photo: Knit Picks]
