Over the Top

Okay, so here is the start of my Knitted Garden. I ordered a book by Jan Messent with the same title but it hasn't arrived yet.  I hope to write down the pattern for each crop/piece of land I make. I am incorporating crochet with this as it lends itself so brilliantly to the gardens.
BTW, I am terrible at the real thing-----tend to kill every plant entrusted to me.
So imagine how fulfilling it is to  make a perfect head of lettuce with a bit of embroidery floss?
I hope to make my Gardens the size of a small baby quilt. DD and I have made small dolls for years that will fit so nicely on this knitted "play mat."
I blame all of this on Tree, a doll-group friend---her knitted garden fits a king bed and her imagination knows no bounds! :)

This is about 6" wide.  The "soil" is knitted with size 7 needles and worsted wt.

The lettuce/or cabbages are done with DMC floss and size B crochet hook.

I know the carrots don't grow that way; I have laid them out as though they had just been picked as bunches and are still laying on the soil.

 

The tails of each are used to sew on to the soil; double-knotted shoelace bows are on the back, in case someone would want to rearrange the crop. (Yes, over the top!)

 

Here is how the carrots are done, along with the carrot "tops."

I hope to add patterns as I go, so you can make them if you want!

 

 

Edited Sept. 12, 2015:

Oooops------seems I can kill even yarn-fiber veggies-----I did the piece above and then realized I am a bit too Type A personality to make any sort of blanket or mat that has different size rectangles in it.  I can DO it, that isn't the problem----but it causes me to hyperventilate (figurativel) and life is too short for that, eh?

 

So now I am hanging up my knitted garden tools and am going back to dressing dolls....which is what I've always done best. :)