Life-Sized Knitted Foods Will Whet Your Palette for All Sorts of Tasty Treats

 

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Artist and knitwear design­er Kate Jenk­ins cre­ates all sorts of delec­table dish­es out of yarn. I’m not talk­ing about things that are good for your health—think cakes, cook­ies, and a lot of bread. The knit­ted pieces are life­sized recre­ations of noms we love with an added dash of wit. Kate will some­times add fun­ny faces to her foods to take an already play­ful for­mat and make it even more whimsical.

After learn­ing to knit and cro­chet at the age of eight, Kate real­ized that she was bet­ter at “inter­pret­ing an idea by cre­at­ing it in 3d using wool rather than through paint­ing or draw­ing.” She went to col­lege for fash­ion and tex­tiles and had a suc­cess­ful career as a knitwear design­er. Even­tu­al­ly, she piv­ot­ed her focus. “I was always look­ing for dif­fer­ent ways to use my love of wool, tex­tile, and col­or,” she writes. “And that’s how my art was born. The every­day has always fas­ci­nat­ed and inspired me, par­tic­u­lar­ly food. So I began to take things we all know and love – like fish and chips—reinventing them in wool.”

Kate sells a selec­tion of her work in her online shop, and you can fol­low her on Insta­gram to see what she’s cook­ing up next.

 

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