(re-post)
Out of the blue came the thought "I wonder what it would be like to knit soup." Having a cold may have had something to do with it. The bowl part was not difficult except to come up with a cord that would represent porcelain and be solid enough; I found some white gimp in my stash and crocheted a bowl shape.
Here is what the bowl looks like. (click on photo once or twice to enlarge and see inside)
The challenge was to create something from fibre that would suggest soup – or stew. A thin cotton (I assume that is what it is; found it in my stash on a cone with no identification) got knit into a square and put in bottom of bowl; the same cotton was then randomly crocheted into a looser mass and I plan to do more of this. It is a work in progress.
Peas and carrots are in soups; so far – one pea and one carrot slice. I had thought to do them in extreme embroidery on the knit cotton square and may still attempt this; I also like the idea of vegetables in the midst of the bubbling fibre.
The spoon: it sort of happened. I've not done much work with wire but could not think of what else to make a spoon from still using fibre and I had some silver wire….. The 20 gauge was too stiff and I made 'something' with it – just not sure yet what that 'something' is.
Using 24 gauge and a metal crochet hook and thinking about a spoon – my hands took over and after awhile I had this – spoon. It was a strangely satisfying process as it usually is when something 'sort of happens'.