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(re-post of a re-post)
(re-post from Dec 16 2008)
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.
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'.