beet it

More veggies, please! Maybe a whole book? Title it “Knit Your Vegetables.”

Whooooa, Norah! You have inadvertently given all Office fans an amazing gag gift to knit.

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Whoops, I think this will work:

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I’m making my own Schrute Beet Farm!!

*Love it!* My grandson likes to play grocery with his little toy shopping cart. Now I can knit him some “wholesome” food to enrich his consumer play. Keep designing - I can’t wait to knit these veggies.

This is incredible! Those leaves are really wonderful! It’s beyond amusing, really.

I can hear it now……….. so Norah, what are you working on? A beet. A beet. Really. Like Beat it? No, a beet. Beats me? It could go on forever!

Can’t wait to see the garden grow!

Oooh, a hand-knit Schrute Beet Farm! That’s too funny!!!!!

Wow, I love it! So cool. The romanesco cauliflower would be magnificent, I hope you do conquer it!

I absolutely love this. And I am loving what Skrilla said!!

I love it! I agree with everyone, I can’t wait to see the rest of the garden. I can see so many applications for this too. Thank you for your wonderful imagination!

Who wouldn’t go to the Shrute Beet Farm B&B!! Your pattern is such an awesome tie-in!!! But the workmanship and patterning is fabulous!

Good morning, Norah,

What fun to find this blog and your wonderful beet right at the top! You must’ve seen Jan Messant’s great books, Knitted Garden, Knitted Farmyard, Knitted Historical Figures…? Those titles are out of my memory banks, so they’re approximate. There are WONDERFUL things to knit when we get “outside the box” (although Arans and Fair Isles never lose their charm). I can’t wait to see your knitted cauliflower - that link is amazing.

Keep Designing (as if you could help it…).

Wow - I’m in awe again! Beware the cauliflower fractal - it’s kind of infinite, so you might never finish!

This made my day. I hope you put out a veggie booklet for those of us who aren’t into toddler knits!

thanks for that link. I was never more enthralled by cauliflower in my life. perhaps if i read more of that site, i’ll understand a lot more of your book. it’s me, not your writing. (I have an illness type thing that eats at the grey matter, or gray matter, if you prefer. I’d prefer if it left my gray matter just as it was, however, apparently that is not an option. oh, vell.) the part about not understanding science so much anymore that irks me the most, is that i went to a g-d math-sceince high school, yet now i can’t understand science in knitting. oh, the world is a cruel, cruel place. {that’s to be read with a witchy tone, please)

Love that beet!

How fun! I love it.

Nice califlower link! I love fractals and yours rock! The beet is so yummy and amusing!

I love it!

OMG! this is sooo cute!

That’s a beautiful beet. I love the leaves especially. And I look forward to your design for a knitted Romanesco cauliflower!

I found the blog while browsing through Berroco patterns. I love your previews of the upcoming patterns. Sure it’s impractical, but knitting the beet certainly looks like fun!

That’s fantastic! Can’t think of any use for it, but I want to bite into it!

I am sensing the birth of a Romanesco cauli-beret…or maybe a Gaultier-esque bikini top? nah….

Either way, it would be a great vehicle for learning shibori!

A friend just announced she is having a baby. I instantly thought that I needed to make this since she is a chef and he is a photographer. They both could use it.

Also I can’t wait to work with the Comfort DK. I think it might work for Morrigan from No Sheep for You

I love the beet! Just the leaves would make great lettuce too. More veggies! More veggies! please!

I love your knitted beet! A romanesco cauliflower would be awesome! Ooo, what about a stalk of brussles sprouts? Maybe some celery? They ARE fun for adults. But, kids play with fake kitchen/food tools and ingredients all the time, so why not fun knitted toys instead of cheap plastic that may or may not have lead paint? I think the fact that you did greens on your beet is even cooler than if you’d just done a beet by itself. Great job!

Very, very cool - like a 3-D Kaffe Fassett design. Cabbages next?

Oh, yes! Please tell me there’s a cabbage.

I just found your web site. Where is the pattern for the beets. I also would love a pattern for a textured cauliflower.

that is so cool! You have a perfect pallet of colours in that yarn!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the beet! Is there any other way to get this pattern? The ordering process seems a bit complicated. Perhaps Berroco could sell it as a one-off? Overall, a knitting food book sounds like an awesome idea, and who better to do it than you, Norah.

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I LOVE the beet. It’s a work of art and is so much more sophisticated than I ever thought a knitted beet could ever be. Until more vegetables come out, you just can’t beat Norah’s Beet… okay no more punishment from me.

Seriously, the beet is a thing of beauty and too nice to be slobbered on by a child. This should be reserved for the adults to drool over.

Where can I get the patterns of Beet It and other knit vegetables?

Love the beet. We need a whole garden of veggies.

hello norah,
the romanesco, remember that ball with spikes you offered as a pattern on berocco? well that could be downsized to be one “stem” on which another triangular texture (fractal) is “pattern”ed…
and knit circularly alltogether, see what i mean?