I pretty much did my own thing. I started with the base-and followed that…but instead of binding off, I did a row of opposite the stockinette (for a crisp edge) then I picked up stitches along sides and front (the back was already on needles) for working those in the round. For the lid-I actually did stockinette, then a row of purl for turning then did the same amount of rows in stockinette and folded it over so it would be more firm. To keep the sides from collapsing I used some plastic canvas and sewed it onto the sides and along the top edge…For the spam slices again, I didn’t make two pieces separate, I made one, then did a purl row, and made the second and just folded it over.

I have loads of family that live in Spamtown, USA-aka Austin, MN. I remember visiting as a kid (my mom lived there-she’s a real crappy mother that left her kid-I was that kid-the ‘unaccompanied minor’ on an airplane-that phrase gives me the willies) and smelling the pig in the air from the Hormel plant…It was just a small town…but now, because of the Spam Museum, it is quite the tourist place-so strange! My step-cousin wrote the spam joke book…I wish this was a joke…it isn’t haha! So now my bro works for Hormel…and may be starting over at the spam museum..only fitting he gets this!!!