Ever ordered or made a plate of food that was almost too pretty to eat? Well, in any case, this one surely is! This life-size and life-like sea food platter contains a mouthwatering selection of shrimp, mussels, anchovies and is gorgeously garnished with lettuce and zesty slices of lemon and lime. A dish, very suitable for vegetarians, that will stay fresh indefinitely and will light up your meal.

The sea food can be made with 1.2 mm double pointed needles and lace yarn in miniature or on thicker needles in heavier yarn (then it’ll make for a bigger plate of food).

This serving of sea food salad actually glows in the dark! Just adding a strand of luminescent sewing yarn to your knit, will do the trick. Only small amounts of yarns are needed, so these cute crustaceans make for a great project to use up any scraps you have lying around, in any possible color and gauge!

I’ve added strands of Gütermann Glowy 40 glow-in-the-dark sewing yarn in different colors to the knit and used a metallic DMC yarn for the anchovy.

This is an easy to medium project, with some color and textural work (stripes and a bobble), embroidery on the citrus fruit and simple crocheting on the shrimp. The ingredients of this aqueous meal are life-sized and vary between 4 and 7 cm.

Have a splashy and scrumptious knit!